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This page describes the process of getting, building and installing GStreamer Daemon.

Getting the Code

The official repository is hosted in GitHub. In order to clone the latest version you may run:

git clone https://github.com/RidgeRun/gstd-1.x.git

This code will always point to the latest stable version.

Development Version

By default, the command above will clone the master branch, which will always contain the latest software release. To clone the development version, you may run:

git clone -b develop https://github.com/RidgeRun/gstd-1.x.git

or equivalently

git clone https://github.com/RidgeRun/gstd-1.x.git
git checkout develop

This clone will contain the latest source currently being developed, but it may not be as stable as the master branch. Unless there is a good reason to use the develop branch, master should be used.

Previous Versions

You may switch to a previous version of GStreamer Daemon by referring to the existing project tags. In order to list the existing tags (versions), you may run:

git tag

To use a specific code version, run:

git tag v0.5.0-rc1

where v0.5.0-rc1 is the version to build.

Dependencies

Your build environment will need the following packages installed in order to build GStreamer Daemon:

• automake
• gstreamer and gstreamer-base
  • called libgstreamer1.0-dev and libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev on debian derived systems
  • called gstreamer-devel-1.0 on RPM based systems
• gio-2.0
• json-glib-1.0
• gtk-doc
• readline
• ncurses or ncursesw
• Compiler toolchain
• libtool
• pkg-config

Building Gstd-1.0

GStreamer Daemon is an Autotools project. This makes it easy to build software packages for a variety of operating systems and platforms, including embedded devices.

Building for x86

Building for a host computer is straightforward. You may run the following commands:

./autogen.sh
./configure 
make

Specify ./configure --prefix $INSTALL_PATH if you want the build to be configured for installation in a directory other than /usr/local.

Building for Other Platforms

The process to build for other platforms is similar that the one for x86.

./autogen.sh
./configure --host <platform-host-name> 
make

In the previous commands <platform-host-name> is the prefix that would be added to the cross-compiler as: <platform-host-name>-gcc". I.E.: arm-none-linux.

Advanced Configuration

The following command may be used as a template for more advanced configurations

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=</alternative/path/lib/pkg-config/> ./configure --host <platform-host-name> \
  --prefix </alternative/prefix/> CFLAGS="<Additional cflags>" LDFLAGS="<Additional ldflags>"

In order to see the full list of configuration options you may run:

./configure --help

Installing the Binaries

Once the make command completes, you can install the generated binaries:

make install

If you are trying to install to a system location you will need to run with sudo privileges.

sudo make install

Common build problems and how to resolve them

As build issues are reported, we will capture the error message and provide the steps on how to resolve the issue. Don't be shy, open an issue at github repo and let us help you get unstuck.

./autogen.sh: line 24: gtkdocize: command not found

Need to install gtk-doc package.

Example builds

Mac OSX 10.12.4 Sierra

I created a fresh install VM, downloaded macports, then ran these commands:

cd $HOME/Downloads
open MacPorts-2.4.1-10.12-Sierra.pkg # use default settings
# open a new terminal window
port version # verify install went okay
port list # verify package database install went okay

sudo port install autoconf automake gtk-doc json-glib  # install xcode and other packages
sudo port install gstreamer1 gstreamer1-gst-plugins-base gstreamer1-gst-plugins-good # installs lots of other packages

DEVDIR=$HOME/projects/gstd
mkdir -p $(dirname $DEVDIR)
cd $(dirname $DEVDIR)
git clone https://github.com/RidgeRun/gstd-1.x.git $(basename $DEVDIR)

cd $DEVDIR
./autogen.sh
./configure 
make
sudo make install

gstd &
gstd-client pipeline_create testpipe videotestsrc name=vts ! autovideosink
gstd-client pipeline_play testpipe
 
# Change a property
gstd-client element_set testpipe vts pattern ball
 
# Stop the pipeline
gstd-client  pipeline_stop testpipe
 
# Destroy the pipeline 
gstd-client  pipeline_delete testpipe
killall gstd

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