Gstreamer on windows

Question

I'd like to build application using Gstreamer 1.0 and GTK+-3.0 on Windows 8 (64bit).

I have sucessfully install and build GTK+-3.0, 32 bit version using Dev-C++ and Mingw 32-bit (there is no 64 bit version of GTK+). Everything works perferkt. It also installed pkg-config, I addeded it in %PATH% and it works.

I have installed gstreamer-1.0-devel-x86-1.4.4.msi and gstreamer-1.0-x86-1.4.4.msi from here

1) First problem: it installed itself into I:\\gstreamer\\ without asking me. I am very unhappy about it, I'd like have it on C:. But its not the biggest problem.

2) pkg-config do not know about gstreamer. I have found in I:\\gstreamer\\1.0\\x86\\lib\\pkgconfig\\ *.pc files, so I looked into gstreamer-1.0.pc and added to my projekt this options:

C compiler: -I"I:/gstreamer/1.0/x86/include/gstreamer-1.0/" Linker: -L"I:/gstreamer/1.0/x86/lib" -lgstreamer-1.0

3) Now the program was compiled, but when I run it, it was not able to find gstreamer-1.0-0.dll. So i tried copy I:\\gstreamer\\1.0\\x86\\bin\\gstreamer-1.0-0.dll into to the same directory as is my compiled file. Then it was not able to find libwinptread-1.dll. So I copied it also.

Then te program run, but it faild with some error like "cannot find entry point to windows thread ..." (I do not remember it exactly). So I copied ALL dll files from I:\\gstreamer\\1.0\\x86\\bin\\ and then finally the program run.

But now it is not able to create elements:

source = gst_element_factory_make ("videotestsrc", "source");
//source is null

So, my question is, how to install gstreamer, that my program will find all dll files and will be able to create elements?

Answer 1

1. installing -- choose "custom install", there you can change the installation path.
2. for vs you can use *.props (gstreamer\\1.0\\x86\\share\\vs\\2010\\libs)
3. you need set Environment variable - GST_PLUGIN_SYSTEM_PATH_1_0 to plug-ins. For more details see http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/gstreamer/html/gst-running.html