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author | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com> | 2020-10-20 15:09:56 +0100 |
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committer | Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com> | 2020-10-20 15:09:56 +0100 |
commit | 0ed74ea1e6c5d2c4000b544c8f772ccbf34eb36a (patch) | |
tree | 320157a707917931abb627bec77274d15d1d0275 | |
parent | e7a504c7b6ff400115a510f755b2f217afa9b173 (diff) | |
download | gstreamer-plugins-base-0ed74ea1e6c5d2c4000b544c8f772ccbf34eb36a.tar.gz |
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@@ -9,17 +9,24 @@ WHERE TO START -------------- We have a website at -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ -You should start by going through our FAQ at -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/faq/html/ + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org -There is more documentation; go to -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation +Our documentation, including tutorials, API reference and FAQ can be found at -You can subscribe to our mailing lists; see the website for details. + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/ -We track bugs in GNOME's bugzilla; see the website for details. +You can subscribe to our mailing lists: + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-announce + + https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/gstreamer-devel + +Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/GStreamer + +We track bugs, feature requests and merge requests (patches) in GitLab at + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/ You can join us on IRC - #gstreamer on irc.freenode.org @@ -137,12 +144,11 @@ PLATFORMS --------- - Linux is of course fully supported -- FreeBSD is reported to work; other BSDs should work too -- Solaris is reported to work; a specific sunaudiosink plugin has been written -- MacOSX works, binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool +- FreeBSD is reported to work; other BSDs should work too; same for Solaris +- MacOS works, binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool - Windows works; binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool - MSys/MinGW builds - - Microsoft Visual Studio builds are not yet available or supported + - Microsoft Visual Studio builds are also available and supported - Android works, binary 1.x packages can be built using the cerbero build tool - iOS works @@ -151,36 +157,49 @@ INSTALLING FROM PACKAGES You should always prefer installing from packages first. GStreamer is well-maintained for a number of distributions, including Fedora, Debian, -Ubuntu, Mandrake, Gentoo, ... +Ubuntu, Mandrake, Arch Linux, Gentoo, ... Only in cases where you: -- want to hack on GStreamer -- want to verify that a bug has been fixed -- do not have a sane distribution + + - want to hack on GStreamer + - want to verify that a bug has been fixed + - do not have a sane distribution + should you choose to build from source tarballs or git. Find more information about the various packages at -http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/ + + https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/ COMPILING FROM SOURCE TARBALLS ------------------------------ -- again, make sure that you really need to install from source ! +- again, make sure that you really need to install from source! If GStreamer is one of your first projects ever that you build from source, consider taking on an easier project. -- check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you +- you need a recent version of Meson installed, see + + http://mesonbuild.com/Getting-meson.html + + and + + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/blob/master/README.md + - run - ./configure - make + + meson build + ninja -C build to build GStreamer. + - if you want to install it (not required, but what you usually want to do), run - make install + + ninja -C build install - try out a simple test: - gst-launch -v fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink - (If you didn't install GStreamer, prefix gst-launch with tools/) + gst-launch-1.0 -v fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink + (If you didn't install GStreamer, run `./build/tools/gst-launch-1.0`) If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is ok. @@ -196,45 +215,25 @@ COMPILING FROM SOURCE TARBALLS COMPILING FROM GIT ------------------ -When building from git sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate -the build system files. - -You will need a set of additional tools typical for building from git, -including: -- autoconf -- automake -- libtool - -autogen.sh will check for recent enough versions and complain if you don't have -them. You can also specify specific versions of automake and autoconf with ---with-automake and --with-autoconf - -Check autogen.sh options by running autogen.sh --help - -autogen.sh can pass on arguments to configure - -When you have done this once, you can use autoregen.sh to re-autogen with -the last passed options as a handy shortcut. Use it. - -After the autogen.sh stage, you can follow the directions listed in -"COMPILING FROM SOURCE" +You can build an uninstalled GStreamer from git for development or testing +purposes without affecting your system installation. -You can also run your whole git stack uninstalled in your home directory, -so that you can quickly test changes without affecting your system setup or -interfering with GStreamer installed from packages. Many GStreamer developers -use an uninstalled setup for their work. +Get started with: -There is a 'create-uninstalled-setup.sh' script in + git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build + meson build + ninja -C build + ninja -C build uninstalled - http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/tree/scripts/ +For more information, see the `gst-build` module and its documentation: -to easily create an uninstalled setup from scratch. + https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/blob/master/README.md PLUG-IN DEPENDENCIES AND LICENSES --------------------------------- -GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see LICENSE file for +GStreamer is developed under the terms of the LGPL (see COPYING file for details). Some of our plug-ins however rely on libraries which are available under other licenses. This means that if you are distributing an application which has a non-GPL compatible license (for instance a closed-source diff --git a/common b/common -Subproject 59cb678164719ff59dcf6c8b93df4617a1075d1 +Subproject a825d2773adaeec23369d0770098b2c44ca7377 |