Building GStreamer in Windows | Linux Today

Building GStreamer in Windows

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Aaron Boxer
Nov 26, 2019

Given GStreamer’s roots in the Linux/GTK world, Windows has seemed at times like a second-class citizen when it came to hacking GStreamer code. With the advent of meson and gst-build, however, this is no longer the case. It is now possible to set up a Windows development environment that rivals the finest Linux has to offer, with full support for Visual Studio debugging into the library.

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Aaron Boxer

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