Unable to build GStreamer for Android Tutorials
android, android-ndk, gstreamer
Solution
I posted the above question on the GStreamer Android mailing list and got the following response:
Hi, Unfortunately we forgot to include `pkg-config` in this release for Mac OS X. You can download it from here: http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/
I used homebrew to install `pkg-config` and was able to build all of the Android Tutorials via the command line using `ndk-build`.
I still have a number of issues in Eclipse:
- * `GSTREAMER_SDK_ROOT_ANDROID` is not defined! - I can not get Eclipse to pick up this variable
- If I hard code the variable into the make file I then get `/bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found` - pkg-config is installed and working via the CLI
I believe some of the issues are related to Android Issue 33788 and I have attempted to resolve them using CDT 8.0.2 instead of CDT 8.10 but it did not solve either of the above issues.
I have worked around the problem for now by doing the following:
- Disabled CDT building for my project
- Building the NDK code using the CLI ndk-build
- Building and deploying the application to my device via Eclipse as normal
Problem
I'm running into a number of issues attempting to build the GStreamer Android tutorials. My environment is: - Mac OS X 7 - Android SDK version 17 - Android NDK 8d I am able to build and run the NDK samples both in Eclipse and from the command line. I have downloaded http://cdn.gstreamer.com/android/arm/gstreamer-sdk-android-arm-debug-2012.11.tar.bz2 and added the GSTREAMER_SDK_ROOT_ANDROID environment variable to my .bash_profile. When I try to build android-tutorial-1 via Eclipse I get the following error: ``` 12:12:05 **** Incremental Build of configuration Default for project Tutorial1 **** /apps/tools/android-ndk-r8d/ndk-build all jni/Android.mk:13: *** GSTREAMER_SDK_ROOT_ANDROID is not defined!. Stop. 12:12:05 Build Finished (took 104ms) ``` I have tried adding GSTREAMER_SDK_ROOT_ANDROID to the C++ build variables in Eclispe but it makes no difference. When I try to build via the command line I get the following error: ``` /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found GStreamer : [GEN] => gst-build/gstreamer_android.c GStreamer : [COMPILE] => gst-build/gstreamer_android.c gst-build/gstreamer_android.c:2:21: fatal error: gst/gst.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make: *** [gst-build/gstreamer_android.o] Error 1 ``` What I can't figure out is gst/gst.h can not be resolved?