[gst-embedded] New to gstreamer

Wed Oct 14 04:35:26 PDT 2009

Hi Felipe,
               I have tried with scratchbox 1. SB1 has been installed 
successfully. But when i tried to configure glib2.16.2 with following 
command.

[sbox-armv7: ~] > 
./configure --prefix="$prefix" --disable-static --with-html-dir=/tmp/dump --host=arm-none-linux-gnueabi

            it gives following error.Please find log of configure command as 
followed.

checking for a BSD-compatible install... /scratchbox/tools/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /scratchbox/tools/bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-strip... no
checking for strip... strip
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking build system type... arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
checking host system type... arm-none-linux-gnueabi
checking for the BeOS... no
checking for Win32... no
checking for Mac OS X Carbon support... checking for style of include used 
by make... GNU
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... yes
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
no
checking whether to enable garbage collector friendliness... no
checking whether to disable memory pools... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc... gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for c++... c++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether c++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of c++... gcc3
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /scratchbox/tools/bin/install -c
checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no
checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... 64
checking for pkg-config... /scratchbox/tools/bin/pkg-config
checking for gawk... (cached) gawk
checking for perl5... no
checking for perl... perl
checking for indent... no
checking for perl... /scratchbox/tools/bin/perl
checking for a Python interpreter with version >= 2.4... none
checking for iconv_open... yes
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... 
/scratchbox/tools/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /scratchbox/tools/bin/grep -E
checking whether we are using the GNU C Library 2.1 or newer... yes
checking Whether to cache iconv descriptors... no
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... /scratchbox/tools/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking if msgfmt accepts -c... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /scratchbox/tools/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /scratchbox/tools/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed...  am ar as az be be at latin bg bn 
bn_IN bs ca cs cy da de dz el en_CA en_GB eo es et eu fa fi fr ga gl gu he 
hi hr hu hy id is it ja ka kn ko ku lt lv mg mk ml mn mr ms nb ne nl nn oc 
or pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru rw si sk sl sq sr sr at Latn sr at ije sv ta te th tl tr 
tt uk vi wa xh yi zh_CN zh_HK zh_TW
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... 
/scratchbox/tools/bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... 
/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld
checking if the linker 
(/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld) 
is GNU ld... yes
checking for 
/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld 
option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... nm
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognize dependent libraries... pass_all
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... c++ -E
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-xlf... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-f77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-frt... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-pgf77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-cf77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-fort77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-fl32... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-af77... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-xlf90... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-f90... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-pgf90... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-pghpf... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-epcf90... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gfortran... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g95... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-xlf95... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-f95... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-fort... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ifort... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ifc... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-efc... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-pgf95... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-lf95... no
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ftn... no
checking for g77... no
checking for xlf... no
checking for f77... no
checking for frt... no
checking for pgf77... no
checking for cf77... no
checking for fort77... no
checking for fl32... no
checking for af77... no
checking for xlf90... no
checking for f90... no
checking for pgf90... no
checking for pghpf... no
checking for epcf90... no
checking for gfortran... no
checking for g95... no
checking for xlf95... no
checking for f95... no
checking for fort... no
checking for ifort... no
checking for ifc... no
checking for efc... no
checking for pgf95... no
checking for lf95... no
checking for ftn... no
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... no
checking whether  accepts -g... no
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse nm output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ar... no
checking for ar... ar
configure: WARNING: In the future, Autoconf will not detect cross-tools
whose name does not start with the host triplet.  If you think this
configuration is useful to you, please write to autoconf at gnu.org.
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for arm-none-linux-gnueabi-strip... strip
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker 
(/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld) 
supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by c++... 
/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld
checking if the linker 
(/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld) 
is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the c++ linker 
(/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld) 
supports shared libraries... yes
checking for c++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if c++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if c++ static flag -static works... yes
checking if c++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the c++ linker 
(/scratchbox/compilers/cs2007q3-glibc2.5-arm7/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld) 
supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
(cached) (cached) checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... 
immediate
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking for extra flags for POSIX compliance... none needed
checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) yes
checking for vprintf... yes
checking for _doprnt... no
checking for working alloca.h... yes
checking for alloca... yes
checking for mmap... yes
checking for posix_memalign... yes
checking for memalign... yes
checking for valloc... yes
checking for atexit... yes
checking for on_exit... yes
checking for timegm... yes
checking for gmtime_r... yes
checking size of char... 1
checking size of short... 2
checking size of long... 4
checking size of int... 4
checking size of void *... 4
checking size of long long... 8
checking size of __int64... 0
checking for format to printf and scanf a guint64... none
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking if malloc() and friends prototypes are gmem.h compatible... yes
checking for growing stack pointer... configure: error: cannot run test 
program while cross compiling
See `config.log' for more details.

            Please help me out to resolve this issue.

            If any where i am wrong, please correct me.

Thanks in Advance,
Tejas.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felipe Contreras" <felipe.contreras at gmail.com>
To: "Nigel Hsiung" <nigelcz at hotmail.com>
Cc: <tejas at oriolesoftware.com>; "gst mailing list" 
<gstreamer-embedded at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gst-embedded] New to gstreamer

> 2009/10/12 Nigel Hsiung <nigelcz at hotmail.com>:
>>
>> Hi Tejas,
>>
>>> If i follow
>>> "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/wiki/HowToCompileForEmbedded"
>>> link to cross compile gstreamer for my beagle board, there is no CC 
>>> option
>>> is given to cross compile it.
>>
>> The wiki is for compiling on scratchbox which does not require CC to be
>> specified.
>
> Exactly. For an explanation of what scratchbox is, what problems it
> solves, and how to cross-compile without it:
> http://felipec.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/installing-scratchbox-1-and-2-for-arm-cross-compilation/
>
> Cheers.
>
> -- 
> Felipe Contreras
> 