Building Gst-Plugins-Base. You'll need a lot of 3rd-party libraries. Some of them are optional, others are not. Let's start with mandatory ones.
Install prereqisites
Install liboil
Go to http://liboil.freedesktop.org/download/
Download latest liboil source package:
liboil-0.3.17.tar.gz
Unpack it into c:\src
cd /c/src/liboil-0.3.17 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure make make install
Install optional packages
Install ogg
Go to http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
Download latest libogg:
libogg-1.2.0.tar.gz
Unpack to c:\src
cd /c/src/libogg-1.2.0 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure make make install
Install Theora
Go to http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
Download latest libtheora:
libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2
Unpack to c:\src
cd /c/src/libtheora-1.1.1 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure --disable-examples make make install
--disable-examples disables building of examples, obviously. These examples require a few 3rd-party libraries that we did not yet installed. And we don't need these examples, so the choice is simple.
During configure phase i have experienced some strange error messages related to libgmp-3.dll when building libtheora with GCC-4.4.0, however they do not seem to do any harm (other than being annoying).
Install Vorbis
Go to http://www.xiph.org/downloads/
Download the latest libvorbis source package:
libvorbis-1.3.1.tar.gz
Unpack to c:\src
cd /c/src/libvorbis-1.3.1 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure make make install
Install libvisual
Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=106542&package_id=114832
Download latest libvisual:
libvisual-0.4.0.tar.bz2
Unpack to c:\src
Modify c:\src\libvisual-0.4.0\libvisual\lv_os.c
Change:
ret = sched_setscheduler (getpid (), SCHED_FIFO, &attr);
to
ret = sched_setscheduler (getpid (), SCHED_FIFO);
and:
ret = sched_setscheduler (getpid (), SCHED_OTHER, &attr);
to
ret = sched_setscheduler (getpid (), SCHED_OTHER);
cd /c/src/libvisual-0.4.0 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" LIBS=-lpthread ./configure make make install
Modify c:\msys\local\lib\libvisual-0.4.la:
Remove
-lm
from the line that starts with
dependency_libs=
Modify c:\msys\local\lib\pkgconfig\libvisual-0.4.pc:
Remove
-lm
from the line that starts with
Libs:
Install orc
Get orc-0.4.4.tar.gz from http://code.entropywave.com/download/orc/
cd /c/src/orc-0.4.4 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure make make install
Install schroedinger
Go to http://diracvideo.org/download/schroedinger/
Download latest schroedinger:
schroedinger-1.0.9.tar.gz
Unpack to c:\src
cd /c/src/schroedinger-1.0.9 CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./configure make make install
Build gst-plugins-base
To get gst-plugins-base:
cd /c/src git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base
To configure gst-plugins-base:
cd gst-plugins-base CPPFLAGS="-fno-common" LDFLAGS="-no-undefined" ./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc --enable-experimental --with-libintl-prefix=/mingw
That's all plugins for Gst-Plugins-Base.
- tcp plugin is unported at the moment
- alsa and video4linux seems to be Linux-only
- ximagesink and xvimagesink require X libraries. I've seen X-applications working on Windows and I didn't liked what i've seen.
- gnomevfs is for Gnome only (not available on Windows yet)
- cdparanoia is Linux-only
To build Gst-Plugins-Base:
cd /c/src/gst-plugins-base make make install
To extract Gst-Plugins-Base installation:
make install DESTDIR=/something/other/than/root
Installing gst-plugins-base
You'll have to copy your local/etc/fonts somewhere (usually to /etc/fonts at gstreamer directory), else fontconfig won't find its config file and all pango-based text output (such as subtitles) will be screwed up.