subprojects | ||
.gitignore | ||
.gitmodules | ||
common.py | ||
git-update | ||
gst-uninstalled.py | ||
LICENSE | ||
meson.build | ||
meson_options.txt | ||
msys2_setup.py | ||
README.md | ||
setup.py |
gst-build
GStreamer meson based repositories aggregrator
You can build GStreamer and all its modules at once using meson and its subproject feature.
Getting started
Install meson and ninja
You should get meson through your package manager or using:
$ pip3 install --user meson
You should get ninja
using your package manager or downloading it from
here.
Build GStreamer and its modules
You can get all GStreamer built running:
mkdir build/ && meson build && ninja -C build/
NOTE: on fedora (and maybe other distributions) replace ninja
with ninja-build
Development environment
Uninstalled environment
gst-build also contains a special uninstalled
target that lets you enter an
uninstalled development environment where you will be able to work on GStreamer
easily. You can get into that environment running:
ninja -C build/ uninstalled
If your operating system handles symlinks, built modules source code will be
available at the root of gst-build/
for example GStreamer core will be in
gstreamer/
. Otherwise they will be present in subprojects/
. You can simply
hack in there and to rebuild you just need to rerun ninja -C build/
.
Update git subprojects
We added a special update
target to update subprojects (it uses git pull --rebase
meaning you should always make sure the branches you work on are
following the right upstream branch, you can set it with git branch --set-upstream-to origin/master
if you are working on gst-build
master
branch).
Update all GStreamer modules and rebuild:
ninja -C build/ update
Update all GStreamer modules without rebuilding:
ninja -C build/ git-update
Run tests
You can easily run the test of all the components:
mesontest -C build
To list all available tests:
mesontest -C build --list
To run all the tests of a specific component:
mesontest -C build --suite gst-plugins-base
Or to run a specific test:
mesontest -C build/ --suite gstreamer gst/gstbuffer
Add information about GStreamer development environment in your prompt line
Bash prompt
We automatically handle bash
and set $PS1
accordingly
Zsh prompt
In your .zshrc
, you should add something like:
export PROMPT="$GST_ENV-$PROMPT"
Using powerline
In your powerline theme configuration file (by default in
{POWERLINE INSTALLATION DIR}/config_files/themes/shell/default.json
)
you should add a new environment segment as follow:
{
"function": "powerline.segments.common.env.environment",
"args": { "variable": "GST_ENV" },
"priority": 50
},