| ==== Windows support ==== |
| |
| == Building GStreamer under Win32 == |
| |
| There are different makefiles that can be used to build GStreamer with the usual Microsoft |
| compiling tools. |
| |
| The Makefile is meant to be used with the GNU make program and the free |
| version of the Microsoft compiler (http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/). You also |
| have to modify your system environment variables to use it from the command-line. You will also |
| need a working Platform SDK for Windows that is available for free from Microsoft. |
| |
| The projects/makefiles will generate automatically some source files needed to compile |
| GStreamer. That requires that you have installed on your system some GNU tools and that they are |
| available in your system PATH. |
| |
| The GStreamer project depends on other libraries, namely : |
| - GLib |
| - popt |
| - libxml2 |
| - gettext |
| - libiconv |
| |
| There is now an existing package that has all these dependencies built with MSVC7.1. It exists either |
| a precompiled librairies and headers in both Release and Debug mode, or as the source package to build |
| it yourself. You can find it on http://mukoli.free.fr/gstreamer/deps/. |
| |
| NOTE : GNU tools needed that you can find on http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ |
| - GNU flex (tested with 2.5.4) |
| - GNU bison (tested with 1.35) |
| and http://www.mingw.org/ |
| - GNU make (tested with 3.80) |
| |
| NOTE : the generated files from the -auto makefiles will be available soon separately on the net |
| for convenience (people who don't want to install GNU tools). |
| |
| == Installation on the system == |
| |
| By default, GStreamer needs a registry. You have to generate it using "gst-register.exe". It will create |
| the file in c:\gstreamer\registry.xml that will hold all the plugins you can use. |
| |
| You should install the GStreamer core in c:\gstreamer\bin and the plugins in c:\gstreamer\plugins. Both |
| directories should be added to your system PATH. The library dependencies should be installed in c:\usr. |
| |
| For example, my current setup is : |
| |
| C:\gstreamer\registry.xml |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gst-inspect.exe |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gst-launch.exe |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gst-register.exe |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gstbytestream.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gstelements.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gstoptimalscheduler.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\gstspider.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\bin\libgtreamer-0.8.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\plugins\gst-libs.dll |
| C:\gstreamer\plugins\gstmatroska.dll |
| |
| C:\usr\bin\iconv.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\intl.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\libglib-2.0-0.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\libgmodule-2.0-0.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\libgobject-2.0-0.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\libgthread-2.0-0.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\libxml2.dll |
| C:\usr\bin\popt.dll |
