Question

I’ve been strugling for two weeks to create an environment for building a gstreamer plugin on windows (needed for a songbird addon).

I’ve installed MSYS, MinGW and Cygwin, then installed GStreamer OSSBuild, and I also downloaded the sources for Songbird, which come with their own precompiled version of gstreamer.

I was unable to run gst-inspect (or any other gstreamer applications) from the songbird sources and I figured I will settle for OSSBuild (as I was able to run gst-inspect from the compiled OSSBuild).

When following the instructions for building a GST plugin (found here) through, cygwin will not recognize the OSSBuild and the build fails when running autogen, with the following error:

checking for GST... no
configure: error:
      You need to install or upgrade the GStreamer development
      packages on your system. On debian-based systems these are
      libgstreamer0.10-dev and libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev.
      on RPM-based systems gstreamer0.10-devel, libgstreamer0.10-devel
      or similar. The minimum version required is 0.10.16.

configure failed

I could also not use MSYS or MinGW as they are unable to run autogen at all.

I understand that cygwin should have it’s own gstreamer development packages but I couldn’t find how to install them.

My question: How do I install the gstreamer packages in cygwin or how do I build using cygwin with the OSSBuild dependencies?

In short, how do I get an environment where I can build a gstreamer plugin under windows?

Answer 1

you can install precompiled gstreamer packages for cygwin at cygwinports. there you will find installation instructions and a list of available packages. you should not need to build them from source.