Re: Building Gstreamermm from git (buildroot cross-compile)

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque gmail com>]

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 08:52 -0400, Mohammad Afaneh wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> I've been stuck in getting this to work for the past week. We are
> trying to build GStreamermm from the Git repository using Buildroot
> cross-compile.
> Any documentation or experience on how to get it to work ?

Is there a reason why you need to build from git?  Why not build using
one of the released tarballs?
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gstreamermm/0.10/

> 
> 
> Here is the status of what I am running into:
> - To use the Git repo we needed to include mm-common to generate
> mm-common-prepare and use it for the autoreconf preparation step. This
> seems to work fine.
> - The autogen.sh script enables maintainer mode, which in effect does
> not work with cross-compile (also aligns with what's mentioned in the
> README file).
> - When disabling maintainer-mode it starts by building the
> gstreamer/gstreamermm folder (which fails since the src files have not
> been generated yet I believe).
> - If we disable checking the plugins while maintainer mode is enabled
> (the step in configure.ac that doesn't work with cross-compile) we run
> into the following issue: the tools folder seems to cause issues
> because they will be built for the target.
> 
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. I wasn't sure if this should be sent to
> the gtkmm list instead but I thought it wouldn't hurt to see if anyone
> has had experience with this.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Mohammad
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-- 
José