In static linking scenarios, this is required to avoid this error
building tests:
/work/prefix/lib/libgstcheck-1.0.a(check_run.c.o): In function `tcase_run_tfun_fork':
/work/gstreamer/_builddir/../../../src/gstreamer/libs/gst/check/libcheck/check_run.c:476: undefined reference to `timer_create'
/work/gstreamer/_builddir/../../../src/gstreamer/libs/gst/check/libcheck/check_run.c:483: undefined reference to `timer_settime'
/work/gstreamer/_builddir/../../../src/gstreamer/libs/gst/check/libcheck/check_run.c:493: undefined reference to `timer_delete'
/work/prefix/lib/libgstcheck-1.0.a(check.c.o): In function `check_get_clockid':
/work/gstreamer/_builddir/../../../src/gstreamer/libs/gst/check/libcheck/check.c:628: undefined reference to `timer_create'
/work/gstreamer/_builddir/../../../src/gstreamer/libs/gst/check/libcheck/check.c:629: undefined reference to `timer_delete'
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/447>
Generating those files is useful for users building the GStreamer stack
using meson and having to link it to another project which is still
using the autotools.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776810
https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson
With contributions from:
Tim-Philipp Müller <tim@centricular.com>
Mathieu Duponchelle <mathieu.duponchelle@opencreed.com>
Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> (original port)
Highlights of the features provided are:
* Faster builds on Linux (~40-50% faster)
* The ability to build with MSVC on Windows
* Generate Visual Studio project files
* Generate XCode project files
* Much faster builds on Windows (on-par with Linux)
* Seriously fast configure and building on embedded
... and many more. For more details see:
http://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/05/gstreamer-and-meson-new-hope.htmlhttp://blog.nirbheek.in/2016/07/building-and-developing-gstreamer-using.html
Building with Meson should work on both Linux and Windows, but may
need a few more tweaks on other operating systems.
