-This is gnome-streamer, a framework for streaming media in GNOME. The
+WHAT IT IS
+----------
+This is GStreamer, a framework for streaming media. The
fundamental design comes from the video pipeline at Oregon Graduate
Institute, as well as some ideas from DirectMedia. It's based on plug-ins
that will provide the various codec and other functionality. The
to release binary codecs for Linux, until such time as they get a clue and
release the source.
+COMPILING FROM SOURCE
+---------------------
+- check output of ./configure --help to see if any options apply to you
+- run
+ ./configure
+ make
-Developer note: When building from CVS sources, you will need to run
-autogen.sh to generate the build system files.
-
-Unfortunately, there is a bug in automake which causes it to use a large
-amount of memory when generating plugins/Makefile.in. The following patch,
-which you may wish to apply to automake (version 1.4), fixes this problem.
-It is also fixed in versions of automake 1.4f and later.
-Alternatively, ensure that you have at least 512Mb of memory on your system,
-and be prepared to wait a little while when running automake (or autogen.sh).
-
-The autogen.sh script will automatically detect an unpatched automake and give
-a warning. It will also generate a patched version of automake in the top
-build directory, which you can use by putting it in a directory in your $PATH
-ahead of the unpatched version of automake.
-
-@@ -2383,8 +2383,8 @@
- # to all possible directories, and use it. If DIST_SUBDIRS is
- # defined, just use it.
- local ($dist_subdir_name);
-- if (&variable_conditions ('SUBDIRS')
-- || &variable_defined ('DIST_SUBDIRS'))
-+ if (&variable_defined ('DIST_SUBDIRS')
-+ || &variable_conditions ('SUBDIRS'))
- {
- $dist_subdir_name = 'DIST_SUBDIRS';
- if (! &variable_defined ('DIST_SUBDIRS'))
+ to build GStreamer.
+- if you want to install it (not required), run
+ make install
+- You should create a registry for things to work.
+ If you ran make install in the previous step, run
+ gst-register
+ as root.
+
+ If you didn't install, run
+ tools/gst-register
+ as a normal user.
+
+- try out a simple test:
+ gst-launch fakesrc num_buffers=5 ! fakesink
+ (If you didn't install GStreamer, again prefix gst-launch with tools/)
+
+ If it outputs a bunch of messages from fakesrc and fakesink, everything is
+ ok.
+
+- After this, you're ready to install gst-plugins, which will provide the
+ functionality you're probably looking for by now, so go on and read
+ that README.
+
+COMPILING FROM CVS
+------------------
+When building from CVS sources, you will need to run autogen.sh to generate
+the build system files.
+
+GStreamer is cutting-edge stuff. To be a CVS developer, you need
+what used to be considered cutting-edge tools.
+
+ATM, most of us have at least these versions :
+
+* autoconf 2.52 (NOT 2.52d)
+* automake 1.5
+* libtool 1.4 (NOT Gentoo's genetic failure 1.4.2)
+* pkg-config 0.8.0
+
+autogen.sh will check for these 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 - you just need to separate them
+from autogen.sh with -- between the two.
+prefix has been added to autogen.sh but will be passed on to configure because
+some build scripts like that.
+
+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"
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