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   7 <refentry id="compiling" revision="17 Jan 2002">
   8 <refmeta>
   9 <refentrytitle>Compiling</refentrytitle>
  10 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
  11 <refmiscinfo>GStreamer-Base Library</refmiscinfo>
  12 </refmeta>
  13
  14 <refnamediv>
  15 <refname>Compiling against the base plugins libraries</refname>
  16 <refpurpose>
  17 How to compile against the base plugins libraries
  18 </refpurpose>
  19 </refnamediv>
  20
  21 <refsect1>
  22 <title>Compiling against the base plugins libraries</title>
  23
  24 <para>
  25 To compile against these libraries, you need to tell the compiler where to
  26 find the header files and libraries. This is done with the
  27 <application>pkg-config</application> utility.
  28 </para>
  29 <para>
  30 The following interactive shell session demonstrates how
  31 <application>pkg-config</application> is used:
  32 <programlisting>
  33 $ pkg-config --cflags gstreamer-plugins-base-&GST_MAJORMINOR;
  34 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-&GST_MAJORMINOR; -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2
  35 $ pkg-config --libs gstreamer-plugins-base-&GST_MAJORMINOR;
  36 -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lgstreamer-&GST_MAJORMINOR; -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm -lglib-2.0
  37 </programlisting>
  38 </para>
  39
  40 <para>
  41 Note that, because of the number of libraries provided in this package,
  42 the pkg-config information <emphasis>does not add -l flags</emphasis> itself
  43 to choose the libraries to link to.  You must add these yourself to select
  44 which of the libraries you want to use.
  45 </para>
  46 </refsect1>
  47
  48 </refentry>