gstreamer/docs/manual/win32.xml

<chapter id="chapter-win32">
<title>Windows support</title>
  <sect1 id="section-win32-build">
  <title>Building <application>GStreamer</application> under Win32</title>

<para>There are different makefiles that can be used to build GStreamer with the usual Microsoft 
compiling tools.</para>

<para>The Makefile is meant to be used with the GNU make program and the free 
version of the Microsoft compiler (<ulink url="http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/">http://msdn.microsoft.com/visualc/vctoolkit2003/</ulink>). You also 
have to modify your system environment variables to use it from the command-line. You will also 
need a working Platform SDK for Windows that is available for free from Microsoft.</para>

<para>The projects/makefiles will generate automatically some source files needed to compile 
GStreamer. That requires that you have installed on your system some GNU tools and that they are 
available in your system PATH.</para>

<para>The GStreamer project depends on other libraries, namely :</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>GLib</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>popt</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libxml2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libintl</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libiconv</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>There is now an existing package that has all these dependencies built with MSVC7.1. It exists either as precompiled librairies
and headers in both Release and Debug mode, or as the source package to build it yourself. You can
find it on <ulink url="http://mukoli.free.fr/gstreamer/deps/">http://mukoli.free.fr/gstreamer/deps/</ulink>.</para>

<note>
<title>Notes</title>

<para>GNU tools needed that you can find on <ulink url="http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/">http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/</ulink></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>GNU flex      (tested with 2.5.4)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>GNU bison     (tested with 1.35)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>and <ulink url="http://www.mingw.org/">http://www.mingw.org/</ulink></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>GNU make      (tested with 3.80)</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>the generated files from the -auto makefiles will be available soon separately on the net 
for convenience (people who don't want to install GNU tools).</para>
</note>
</sect1>

  <sect1 id="section-win32-install">
<title>Installation on the system</title>

<para>By default, GSTreamer needs a registry. You have to generate it using "gst-register.exe". It will create
the file in c:\gstreamer\registry.xml that will hold all the plugins you can use.</para>

<para>You should install the GSTreamer core in c:\gstreamer\bin and the plugins in c:\gstreamer\plugins.  Both
directories should be added to your system PATH. The library dependencies should be installed in c:\usr</para>

<para>For example, my current setup is :</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\registry.xml</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gst-inspect.exe</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gst-launch.exe</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gst-register.exe</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gstbytestream.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gstelements.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gstoptimalscheduler.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\gstspider.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\bin\libgtreamer-0.8.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\plugins\gst-libs.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\gstreamer\plugins\gstmatroska.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\iconv.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\intl.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\libglib-2.0-0.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\libgmodule-2.0-0.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\libgobject-2.0-0.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\libgthread-2.0-0.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\libxml2.dll</filename></para></listitem>
<listitem><para><filename>c:\usr\bin\popt.dll</filename></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect1>

</chapter>