[squeak-dev] gstreamer on the mac?

Joshua Gargus schwa at fastmail.us
Wed Apr 23 23:21:00 UTC 2008


On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:13 PM, John M McIntosh wrote:

> Various folks have asked can't we have GStreamer on os-x?
> Well yes if you care to install a hundred packages in a terminal  
> session.
>

Did you use MacPorts (http://www.macports.org)?  Still a bit tedious,  
but better than installing the packages manually.

> But what if you statically link everything?

What do you mean by "everything"?  All of the plugins (good, bad,  
ugly) also statically linked into one binary?

>
>
> Ok I tried that, I get a binary that links fine, but sadly after  
> gstreamer is initialized, when we try to load
> a GStreamer plugin we get
>
> (<unknown>:11870): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242:  
> initialization assertion failed, use g_type_init() prior to this  
> function
>
> The obvious thing would be toput  g_type_init() in the GStreamer  
> initialization, not that it's needed when it's dynamically linked,
> well yes I've done that, and still no go.

Still no-go with exactly the same error?

Josh


>
> I'm wondering if anyone wants to help, I can supply the XCode  
> package, or of course you can use the GStreamer makefile with the
> needed linker statements to build a binary.
>
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