This can be made to work in certain circumstances when
cross-compiling, so default to not building g-i stuff
when cross-compiling, but allow it if introspection was
enabled explicitly via -Dintrospection=enabled.
See gstreamer/gstreamer#454 and gstreamer/gstreamer#381.
gir = find_program('g-ir-scanner', required : get_option('introspection'))
gnome = import('gnome')
-build_gir = gir.found() and not meson.is_cross_build()
+build_gir = gir.found() and (not meson.is_cross_build() or get_option('introspection').enabled())
gir_init_section = [ '--add-init-section=extern void gst_init(gint*,gchar**);' + \
'g_setenv("GST_REGISTRY_1.0", "@0@", TRUE);'.format(meson.current_build_dir() + '/gir_empty_registry.reg') + \
'g_setenv("GST_PLUGIN_PATH_1_0", "", TRUE);' + \