building GStreamer Editing Services 1.2.1 (GES) on windows using Msys MinGw

Question

How can I build Gstreamer Editing Services 1.2.1 on windows?

What steps I take: 1) download gstreamer-editing-services-1.2.1.tar.xz from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-editing-services/ 2) unpack it two times with 7zip. 3) paste extracted "gstreamer-editing-services-1.2.1" folder and its contents to Msys user home folder - C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\home\Benas 4) In msys console type "cd gstreamer-editing-services-1.2.1" 5) In msys console type "./configure --prefix=$HOME"

And it says:

 configure: No package 'glib-2.0' found
 No package 'gobject-2.0' found
 No package 'gmodule-no-export-2.0' found
 configure: error: This package requires GLib >= 2.34.0 to compile.

How can I resolve these dependancies?

Answer 1

Did you install gstreamer? You can find Windows installers from here: http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/

Make sure to grab both the normal and -devel .msi files.

After installing those you should have gstreamer and all its dependencies in C:\gstreamer\1.0\x86. Test and make sure it is working! You'll also have a new environment variable GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_X86 which points to this directory.

So, in MSYS, make sure you have GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_X86\bin in your PATH, and add GSTREAMER_1_0_ROOT_X86\lib\pkgconfig to your PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

Hopefully everything should now work.

Edit: It is important to install gstreamer to the default location, under C:\gstreamer, as it seems both the runtime and development files have this path hard coded.

A quick search of the gnome bugzilla turns up at least one bug acknowledging this problem.