Adding GStreamer plugins

[Michael Berry]

Hi Kirill,

Ok, so with help from here (https://github.com/pgregory/libffi-msvc) I
think I've now got a VS project / makefile that builds libffi.lib, but I
can't work out how to get the build script to build the visual studio
project!

The project is in modules\media\src\main\native\vs_project\libffi, and I've
updated FXMedia.sln to include it - this builds ok, but the makefile then
expects the object files in
modules\media\build\native\win\Release\obj\3rd_party\libffi-lite (I
deliberately kept this structure for consistency with the other projects),
and I can't seem to work out where in the script they're copied across from
the visual studio project (I feel like this should be the easy bit of this
step!)

If I copy them there manually it works and builds libffi-lite.lib, but
obviously this isn't ideal - if it's not too much hassle could someone
point me at the relevant place?

Many thanks,

Michael


On 27 March 2014 08:58, Kirill Kirichenko <kirill.kirichenko at oracle.com>wrote:

>
>
> On 27.03.2014 03:53, Michael Berry wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I seem to have become a bit stuck at step one! I'm
>> probably missing a few things that are rather obvious, but haven't
>> really got much experience at all in this area, so am relying on
>> haphazard Googling and a bit of guesswork! It may well be that updating
>> the framework is a bit beyond my skillset for the time I have available
>> at the moment, but I'll keep pushing on if anyone's willing to give me a
>> bit of guidance on it.
>>
> Yes. It's not trivial at all. You need to have enough patience to go
> through all the steps.
>
>
>  Firstly libffi - I've downloaded that, put it in the 3rd_party folder,
>> and have run "./configure", "make", then "make install" (all under
>> cygwin.) That seems fine; so I've now got "libffi.a" (as well as
>> "cygffi-6.dll") in "3rd_party\libffi\i686-pc-cygwin\.libs".
>>
> The challenge here is first to build libffi with Mircosoft C compiler and
> linker. Here at the first stage you should take libffi and put it somewhere
> separately from javafx. Then try to build it with VisualStudio. Once you
> succeed you should create a makefile in the manner of javafx makefiles for
> Media. As the result of this step you'll get a bunch of C/Header files, the
> makefile. Everything else can be deleted. The resulting makefile should be
> able to build libffi.lib - statically linked library.
>
>  I've then grabbed glib 2.40, placed that in the glib folder, and
>> attempted the same process - this first complained about a lack of
>> libiconv, so I grabbed that and set the appropriate flags to point to
>> it, and now I get the following:
>>
>> /configure: error: in
>> `/cygdrive/c/Users/Michael/Documents/JFX8/modules/media/
>> src/main/native/gstreamer/3rd_party/glib/glib-2.28.8':/
>> /configure: error: The pkg-config script could not be found or is too
>>
>> old.  Make sure it is in your PATH or set the PKG_CONFIG environment
>> variable to the full path to pkg-config./
>> /
>> /
>> /Alternatively, you may set the environment variables LIBFFI_CFLAGS and
>> LIBFFI_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config./
>>
>
> For GLib you can disable iconv in configure. This is the next step. Let's
> start with libffi first.
>
>
>
>> I'm assuming this is something to do with the fact it can't find libffi,
>> but I'm unaware of how to tell it that libffi is in the given folder!
>> I'm also assuming that calling config / make etc. manually is the way to
>> go for the time being - I think I'd be at even more of a loss trying to
>> integrate it into the gradle build script.
>>
> The reason for this to be "such non trivial" is/was the download size. We
> aimed the minimal possible download size. This is probably not an issue
> anymore and we can switch to simpler solutions like you originally did -
> download, unzip, run configure and here we go.
>
> K
>