GLib made the unfortunate decision to prevent libgobject from ever being
unloaded, which means that now any library which registers a static type
can't ever be unloaded either (and any library that depends on those,
ad nauseam).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/778>
Instead of trying to hardcode site-packages paths for different platforms
just use python.get_install_dir() from meson and let it deal with the rest.
Also no longer try to import pygobject, which would otherwise not be
required at build time.
python.get_install_dir() was at the beginning broken on Windows, but
that was fixed in 0.60 via https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/pull/9156
and since ges now requires >0.60 this can be ignored.
This change was motivated by the install path being wrong under MSYS2, where
the unix install layout is used and the detection code not taking that into
account.
This MR is a continuation of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-editing-services/-/merge_requests/230
see the discussion there for extra context.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3012>
They are part of gst_dep already and we have to make sure to always have
gst_dep. The order in dependencies matters, because it is also the order
in which Meson will set -I args. We want gstreamer's config.h to take
precedence over glib's private config.h when it's a subproject.
While at it, remove useless fallback args for gmodule/gio dependencies,
only gstreamer core needs it.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2031>
For monorepo build and ugly/bad, for advanced feature
option API like get_option('xyz').required(..) which
we use in combination with the 'gpl' option.
For rest of modules for consistency (people will likely
use newer features based on the top-level requirement).
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1084>
Introduces a `libraries` variable that contains all libraries in a
list with the following format:
``` meson
libraries = [
[pkg_name, {
'lib': library_object
'gir': [ {full gir definition in a dict } ]
],
....
]
```
It therefore refactors the way we build the gir so that we can reuse the
same information to build them against 'gstreamer-full' in gst-build
when linking statically
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1093>
