tools: Add support for building gstreamer tools against gst-full

Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1581>

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 034aa94..0543316 100644 (file)
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ project('gstreamer-full', 'c',
                      # when it's no longer necessary.
                      'cpp_std=c++14'])
 
+apiversion = '1.0'
 gst_version = '>= @0@'.format(meson.project_version())
 
 build_system = build_machine.system()
@@ -76,9 +77,16 @@ if not meson.is_subproject() and cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
       language: ['c', 'cpp'])
 endif
 
+building_full = get_option('default_library') == 'static'
+tools_option = 'tools=auto'
+if building_full and not get_option('tools').disabled()
+  # Do not build subprojects tools when we build them against gst-full
+  tools_option = 'tools=disabled'
+endif
+
 # Ordered list of subprojects (dict has no ordering guarantees)
 subprojects = [
-  ['gstreamer', {'build-hotdoc': true}],
+  ['gstreamer', {'build-hotdoc': true, 'subproject_options': [tools_option]}],
   ['gst-plugins-base', {'option': get_option('base'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['gst-plugins-good', {'option': get_option('good'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['libnice', { 'option': get_option('libnice'), 'match_gst_version': false}],
@@ -86,9 +94,9 @@ subprojects = [
   ['gst-plugins-ugly', { 'option': get_option('ugly'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['gst-libav', { 'option': get_option('libav'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['gst-rtsp-server', { 'option': get_option('rtsp_server'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
-  ['gst-devtools', { 'option': get_option('devtools'), 'build-hotdoc': true }],
+  ['gst-devtools', { 'option': get_option('devtools'), 'build-hotdoc': true, 'subproject_options': [tools_option]}],
   ['gst-integration-testsuites', { 'option': get_option('devtools') }],
-  ['gst-editing-services', { 'option': get_option('ges'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
+  ['gst-editing-services', { 'option': get_option('ges'), 'build-hotdoc': true, 'subproject_options': [tools_option]}],
   ['gstreamer-vaapi', { 'option': get_option('vaapi'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['gst-omx', { 'option': get_option('omx'), 'build-hotdoc': true}],
   ['gstreamer-sharp', { 'option': get_option('sharp') }],
@@ -126,6 +134,7 @@ subprojects_names = []
 plugins_doc_caches = []
 orc_update_targets = []
 all_plugins = []
+all_tools = {}
 # Using a list and not a dict to keep the ordering to build the chain of `gir`
 # dependencies
 all_libraries = []
@@ -136,22 +145,24 @@ foreach sp : subprojects
   sysdep = build_infos.get('sysdep', '')
   sysdep_version = build_infos.get('sysdep_version', '')
   match_gst_version = build_infos.get('match_gst_version', true)
+  default_options =  build_infos.get('subproject_options', [])
 
   if match_gst_version
-    subproj = subproject(project_name, version: gst_version, required: is_required)
+    subproj = subproject(project_name, version: gst_version, required: is_required, default_options: default_options)
   elif sysdep != ''
-      sysdep_dep = dependency(sysdep, version: sysdep_version, required: false)
+      sysdep_dep = dependency(sysdep, version: sysdep_version, required: false, default_options: default_options)
       if not sysdep_dep.found()
-        subproj = subproject(project_name, required: is_required)
+        subproj = subproject(project_name, required: is_required, default_options: default_options)
       endif
   else
-    subproj = subproject(project_name, required: is_required)
+    subproj = subproject(project_name, required: is_required, default_options: default_options)
   endif
 
   if subproj.found()
     plugins = subproj.get_variable('plugins', [])
     all_plugins += plugins
     all_libraries += subproj.get_variable('libraries', [])
+    all_tools += subproj.get_variable('gst_tools', {})
 
     orc_update_targets += subproj.get_variable('orc_update_targets', [])
 
@@ -250,7 +261,16 @@ configure_file(
              all_plugins_paths]
 )
 
-if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
+if building_full
+  cdata = configuration_data()
+  cdata.set_quoted('GST_API_VERSION', apiversion)
+  cdata.set_quoted('GETTEXT_PACKAGE', 'gstreamer-full-1.0')
+  cdata.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', gst_version)
+  cdata.set_quoted('GST_PACKAGE_ORIGIN', get_option('package-origin'))
+  configure_file(output : 'config.h', configuration : cdata)
+  configinc = include_directories('.')
+  gst_c_args = ['-DHAVE_CONFIG_H']
+
   # Generate a .c file which declare and register all built plugins
   plugins_names = []
   foreach plugin: all_plugins
@@ -279,6 +299,7 @@ if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
 
   # Get a list of libraries that needs to be exposed in the ABI.
   exposed_libs = []
+  exposed_deps = []
   exposed_girs = []
   incdir_deps = []
   wanted_libs = ['gstreamer-1.0'] + get_option('gst-full-libraries')
@@ -290,6 +311,7 @@ if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
 
     if pkg_name in wanted_libs or all_libs
       if lib_def.has_key('lib')
+        exposed_deps += dependency(pkg_name)
         incdir_deps += dependency(pkg_name).partial_dependency(includes: true, sources: true)
         exposed_libs += [lib_def['lib']]
       endif
@@ -375,6 +397,33 @@ if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
     libraries_private: gst_full_libs_private,
     subdirs : 'gstreamer-1.0')
   meson.override_dependency('gstreamer-full-1.0', gst_full_dep)
+
+  if not get_option('tools').disabled()
+    foreach tool, data: all_tools
+      exe_name = '@0@-@1@'.format(tool, apiversion)
+      extra_args = data.get('extra_c_args', [])
+      sources = data.get('files')
+      deps = []
+      foreach d : data.get('deps', [])
+        if d not in exposed_deps
+          deps += d
+        endif
+      endforeach
+
+      executable(exe_name,
+        sources,
+        install: true,
+        include_directories : [configinc],
+        dependencies : [gst_full_dep] + deps,
+        c_args: extra_args + gst_c_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="@0@"'.format(exe_name)],
+      )
+
+      if data.has_key('man_page')
+        install_man(data.get('man_page'))
+      endif
+
+    endforeach
+  endif
 endif
 
 message('Building subprojects: ' + ', '.join(subprojects_names))
@@ -402,5 +451,5 @@ if orc_subproject.found() and orc_update_targets.length() > 0
 endif
 
 summary({
-  'gstreamer-full': get_option('default_library') == 'static',
+  'gstreamer-full': building_full,
 }, section: 'Build options', bool_yn: true, list_sep: '  ')

diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
index 3037d53..1f837ca 100644 (file)
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ b/meson_options.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ option('rs', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled')
 option('gst-examples', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Build gst-examples')
 option('tls', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'TLS support using glib-networking')
 option('qt5', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Qt5 Support')
+option('tools', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield : true, description : 'Build command line tools')
 
 # Other options
 option('custom_subprojects', type : 'string', value : '', description : 'Comma-separated project names')
@@ -46,3 +47,6 @@ option('nls', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Enable native lan
 option('orc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Enable Optimized Inner Loop Runtime Compiler')
 option('doc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Generate API documentation with hotdoc')
 option('gtk_doc', type : 'feature', value : 'disabled', description : 'Generate API documentation with gtk-doc')
+
+option('package-origin', type : 'string', value : 'Unknown package origin', yield : true,
+       description : 'package origin URL to use in plugins')

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson_options.txt b/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson_options.txt
index d7f5337..d5c9276 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson_options.txt
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/meson_options.txt
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ option('nls', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield: true,
        description : 'Enable native language support (translations)')
 option('doc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield: true,
        description: 'Enable documentation.')
+option('tools', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield : true)

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-devtools/validate/tools/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-devtools/validate/tools/meson.build
index 84e649e..63a1b99 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-devtools/validate/tools/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-devtools/validate/tools/meson.build
@@ -1,57 +1,68 @@
-executable('gst-validate-' + apiversion,
-           'gst-validate.c',
-            install: true,
-            include_directories : inc_dirs,
-            dependencies : validate_dep,
-            c_args : [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-validate-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
-          )
+gst_tools = {
+  'gst-validate': {
+    'files': files('gst-validate.c'),
+    'deps': [validate_dep, gio_dep],
+  },
+  'gst-validate-media-check': {
+    'files': files('gst-validate-media-check.c'),
+    'deps': [validate_dep, gio_dep],
+  },
+}
 
-gst_transcoder_dep = dependency('gstreamer-transcoder-' + apiversion, version : gst_req,
-    fallback : ['gst-plugins-bad', 'gst_transcoder_dep'], required: false)
-
-if gst_transcoder_dep.found()
-  executable('gst-validate-transcoding-' + apiversion,
-             'gst-validate-transcoding.c',
-             install: true,
-             include_directories : inc_dirs,
-             dependencies : [validate_dep, gst_transcoder_dep],
-             c_args : [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-validate-transcoding-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
-            )
+if validate_video_dep.found()
+  gst_tools +=  {
+    'gst-validate-images-check': {
+      'files': files('gst-validate-images-check.c'),
+      'deps': [validate_dep, validate_video_dep, gio_dep],
+    },
+  }
 else
-  warning('Can not build gst-validate-transcoding-' + apiversion)
+    message('Can not build gst-validate-images-check' + apiversion)
 endif
 
-executable('gst-validate-media-check-' + apiversion,
-           'gst-validate-media-check.c',
-            install: true,
-            include_directories : inc_dirs,
-            dependencies : validate_dep,
-            c_args : [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-validate-media-check-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
-        )
-
 rtsp_server_dep = dependency('gstreamer-rtsp-server-' + apiversion,
   fallback: ['gst-rtsp-server', 'gst_rtsp_server_dep'],
   version : gst_req,
   required: false)
 
 if rtsp_server_dep.found()
-    executable('gst-validate-rtsp-server-' + apiversion,
-               'gst-validate-rtsp-server.c',
-               install: true,
-               include_directories: inc_dirs,
-               dependencies : [rtsp_server_dep, validate_dep],
-               c_args: [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-validate-rtsp-server-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
-    )
+    gst_tools += {'gst-validate-rtsp-server': {
+        'files': files('gst-validate-rtsp-server.c'),
+        'deps': [validate_dep, rtsp_server_dep, gio_dep],
+      }
+    }
+else
+    message('Can not build gst-validate-rtsp-server-' + apiversion)
 endif
 
-if validate_video_dep.found()
-    executable('gst-validate-images-check-' + apiversion,
-               'gst-validate-images-check.c',
-                install: true,
-                include_directories : inc_dirs,
-                dependencies : [validate_dep, validate_video_dep],
-                c_args : [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-validate-images-check-@0@"'.format(apiversion)]
-            )
+gst_transcoder_dep = dependency('gstreamer-transcoder-' + apiversion, version : gst_req,
+    fallback : ['gst-plugins-bad', 'gst_transcoder_dep'], required: false)
+if gst_transcoder_dep.found()
+    gst_tools += {'gst-validate-transcoding': {
+        'files': files('gst-validate-transcoding.c'),
+        'deps': [validate_dep, gst_transcoder_dep, gio_dep],
+      }
+    }
+else
+  message('Can not build gst-validate-transcoding-' + apiversion)
+endif
+
+if not get_option('tools').disabled()
+
+  foreach tool, data: gst_tools
+    if data.has_key('config_data')
+    else
+      exe_name = '@0@-@1@'.format(tool, apiversion)
+      executable(
+        exe_name,
+        data.get('files'),
+        install: true,
+        include_directories : inc_dirs,
+        dependencies : data.get('deps'),
+        c_args : [gst_c_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="@0@"'.format(exe_name)],
+      )
+    endif
+  endforeach
 endif
 
 tmpconf = configuration_data()

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
index 8b64dcf..de6c4c7 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/meson.build
@@ -271,9 +271,8 @@ libraries = []
 
 subdir('ges')
 subdir('plugins')
-if not get_option('tools').disabled()
-  subdir('tools')
-endif
+subdir('tools')
+
 subdir('tests')
 if not get_option('examples').disabled()
   subdir('examples')

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/tools/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/tools/meson.build
index 0e73cfa..a764335 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-editing-services/tools/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-editing-services/tools/meson.build
@@ -6,48 +6,62 @@ if gstvalidate_dep.found()
   ges_tool_args += ['-DGST_USE_UNSTABLE_API']
 endif
 
-ges_launch = executable('ges-launch-@0@'.format(apiversion),
-    'ges-validate.c', 'ges-launch.c', 'ges-launcher.c', 'utils.c', 'ges-launcher-kb.c',
-    c_args : [ges_tool_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="ges-launch-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
-    dependencies : deps,
-    install: true
-)
-
-install_man('ges-launch-1.0.1')
-
-# bash completion
-bashcomp_option = get_option('bash-completion')
-bashcomp_dep = dependency('bash-completion', version : '>= 2.0', required : bashcomp_option)
-bash_completions_dir = ''
-bash_helpers_dir = ''
-
-bashcomp_found = false
-if bashcomp_dep.found()
-  bashcomp_found = true
-  bashcomp_dir_override = bashcomp_dep.version().version_compare('>= 2.10') ? ['datadir', datadir] : ['prefix', prefix]
-  bash_completions_dir = bashcomp_dep.get_variable('completionsdir', pkgconfig_define:  bashcomp_dir_override)
-  if bash_completions_dir == ''
-    msg = 'Found bash-completion but the .pc file did not set \'completionsdir\'.'
-    if bashcomp_option.enabled()
-      error(msg)
-    else
-      message(msg)
+
+ges_launch_files = files('ges-validate.c', 'ges-launch.c', 'ges-launcher.c', 'utils.c', 'ges-launcher-kb.c')
+man_page = files('ges-launch-1.0.1')
+gst_tools = {'ges-launch':
+  {
+    'files': ges_launch_files,
+    'deps': deps,
+    'extra_c_args': ges_tool_args,
+    'man_page': man_page,
+  }
+}
+
+if not get_option('tools').disabled()
+  ges_launch = executable('ges-launch-@0@'.format(apiversion),
+      ges_launch_files,
+      c_args : [ges_tool_args] + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="ges-launch-@0@"'.format(apiversion)],
+      dependencies : deps,
+      install: true
+  )
+
+  install_man(man_page)
+
+  # bash completion
+  bashcomp_option = get_option('bash-completion')
+  bashcomp_dep = dependency('bash-completion', version : '>= 2.0', required : bashcomp_option)
+  bash_completions_dir = ''
+  bash_helpers_dir = ''
+
+  bashcomp_found = false
+  if bashcomp_dep.found()
+    bashcomp_found = true
+    bashcomp_dir_override = bashcomp_dep.version().version_compare('>= 2.10') ? ['datadir', datadir] : ['prefix', prefix]
+    bash_completions_dir = bashcomp_dep.get_variable('completionsdir', pkgconfig_define:  bashcomp_dir_override)
+    if bash_completions_dir == ''
+      msg = 'Found bash-completion but the .pc file did not set \'completionsdir\'.'
+      if bashcomp_option.enabled()
+        error(msg)
+      else
+        message(msg)
+      endif
+      bashcomp_found = false
     endif
-    bashcomp_found = false
-  endif
 
-  bash_helpers_dir = bashcomp_dep.get_variable('helpersdir', pkgconfig_define:  bashcomp_dir_override)
-  if bash_helpers_dir == ''
-    msg = 'Found bash-completion, but the .pc file did not set \'helpersdir\'.'
-    if bashcomp_option.enabled()
-      error(msg)
-    else
-      message(msg)
+    bash_helpers_dir = bashcomp_dep.get_variable('helpersdir', pkgconfig_define:  bashcomp_dir_override)
+    if bash_helpers_dir == ''
+      msg = 'Found bash-completion, but the .pc file did not set \'helpersdir\'.'
+      if bashcomp_option.enabled()
+        error(msg)
+      else
+        message(msg)
+      endif
+      bashcomp_found = false
     endif
-    bashcomp_found = false
-  endif
 
-  if bashcomp_found
-    install_data('../data/completions/ges-launch-1.0', install_dir : bash_completions_dir)
+    if bashcomp_found
+      install_data('../data/completions/ges-launch-1.0', install_dir : bash_completions_dir)
+    endif
   endif
 endif

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
index 959ef84..0d52230 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
@@ -477,9 +477,7 @@ subdir('gst-libs')
 subdir('gst')
 subdir('ext')
 subdir('sys')
-if not get_option('tools').disabled()
-  subdir('tools')
-endif
+subdir('tools')
 subdir('tests')
 
 # xgettext is optional (on Windows for instance)

diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/tools/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/tools/meson.build
index 6f96b23..211c212 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/tools/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/tools/meson.build
@@ -25,29 +25,38 @@ if host_system == 'windows'
   endif
 endif
 
-executable('gst-device-monitor-@0@'.format(api_version),
-  'gst-device-monitor.c',
-  install: true,
-  c_args : gst_plugins_base_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-device-monitor-@0@"'.format(api_version)],
-  include_directories: [configinc],
-  dependencies : tool_deps,
-)
-install_man('gst-device-monitor-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+  gst_tools = {
+    'gst-device-monitor': {
+      'files': files('gst-device-monitor.c'),
+      'deps': tool_deps,
+      'man_page': files('gst-device-monitor-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+    },
+    'gst-discoverer': {
+      'files': files('gst-discoverer.c'),
+      'deps': tool_deps,
+      'man_page': files('gst-discoverer-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+    },
+    'gst-play': {
+      'files': files('gst-play.c', 'gst-play-kb.c'),
+      'deps': tool_deps,
+      'man_page': files('gst-play-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+    },
+  }
 
-executable('gst-discoverer-@0@'.format(api_version),
-  'gst-discoverer.c',
-  install: true,
-  c_args : gst_plugins_base_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-discoverer-@0@"'.format(api_version)],
-  include_directories: [configinc],
-  dependencies : tool_deps,
-)
-install_man('gst-discoverer-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+if not get_option('tools').disabled()
+  foreach tool, data: gst_tools
+    exe_name = '@0@-@1@'.format(tool, api_version)
+    executable(exe_name,
+      data.get('files'),
+      install: true,
+      include_directories : [configinc],
+      dependencies : data.get('deps'),
+      c_args: data.get('extra_c_args', []) + gst_plugins_base_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="@0@"'.format(exe_name)],
+    )
 
-executable('gst-play-@0@'.format(api_version),
-  'gst-play.c', 'gst-play-kb.c',
-  install: true,
-  c_args : gst_plugins_base_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="gst-play-@0@"'.format(api_version)] + extra_args,
-  include_directories: [configinc],
-  dependencies : tool_deps + [libm] + extra_deps,
-)
-install_man('gst-play-@0@.1'.format(api_version))
+    if data.has_key('man_page')
+      install_man(data.get('man_page'))
+    endif
+  endforeach
+
+endif

diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
index 8dc00b2..8868c20 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/docs/gst_plugins_cache.json
@@ -2013,6 +2013,6 @@
         "package": "gstreamer-vaapi",
         "source": "gstreamer-vaapi",
         "tracers": {},
-        "url": "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-vaapi/issues"
+        "url": "Unknown package origin"
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file

diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson_options.txt b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson_options.txt
index 8db598b..daa9b10 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson_options.txt
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer-vaapi/meson_options.txt
@@ -11,5 +11,5 @@ option('tests', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield : true)
 option('doc', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', yield: true,
        description: 'Enable documentation.')
 option('package-origin', type : 'string',
-       value : 'https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer-vaapi/issues',
+       value : 'Unknown package origin',
        yield : true, description : 'package origin URL to use in plugins')

diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
index ea5aa7d..ae2ca58 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
@@ -610,9 +610,7 @@ libraries = []
 subdir('gst')
 subdir('libs')
 subdir('plugins')
-if not get_option('tools').disabled()
-  subdir('tools')
-endif
+subdir('tools')
 subdir('tests')
 subdir('data')
 subdir('docs')

diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/tools/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/tools/meson.build
index 39b4287..ad2f5d3 100644 (file)
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/tools/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/tools/meson.build
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# If tools are disabled, we still allow building them against gst-full
+# later, so populate the gst_tools dictionary in any case.
+gst_tools = {}
+
 tools = ['gst-inspect', 'gst-stats', 'gst-typefind']
 
 extra_launch_dep = []
@@ -26,14 +30,25 @@ foreach tool : tools
     extra_c_args += extra_launch_arg
   endif
 
-  executable(exe_name,
-    src_file,
-    install: true,
-    include_directories : [configinc],
-    dependencies : [glib_dep, gobject_dep, gmodule_dep, mathlib, gst_dep] + extra_deps,
-    c_args: gst_c_args + extra_c_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="@0@"'.format(exe_name)],
-  )
+  man_page = files('@0@-1.0.1'.format(tool))
+  if not get_option('tools').disabled()
+    executable(exe_name,
+      src_file,
+      install: true,
+      include_directories : [configinc],
+      dependencies : [glib_dep, gobject_dep, gmodule_dep, mathlib, gst_dep] + extra_deps,
+      c_args: gst_c_args + extra_c_args + ['-DG_LOG_DOMAIN="@0@"'.format(exe_name)],
+    )
+
+    install_man(man_page)
+  endif
 
-  man_page = '@0@-1.0.1'.format(tool)
-  install_man(man_page)
+  gst_tools += {tool:
+    {
+      'files': files(src_file),
+      'deps': [glib_dep, gobject_dep, gmodule_dep, mathlib, gst_dep] + extra_deps,
+      'extra_c_args': extra_c_args,
+      'man_page': man_page,
+    }
+  }
 endforeach