How to build gstreamer-sharp with monodevelop/xamarin?
gstreamer, gtk#, mono, monodevelop, xamarin
Solution
gstreamer-sharp is currently not supported on Windows, however you can compile the managed parts on linux and compile the glue on Windows using Visual Studio:
- Install gtk-sharp 3.0 from https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp
- Compile gstreamer-sharp using ./autogen.sh && make
- Take the compiled glib-sharp and gstreamer-sharp binary and all .c files from sources/glue/
- Download and install gstreamer binaries from http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/pkg/windows/1.2.2/ and install the development and binary packages for the architecture you want to compile for. You can use gstreamer 1.0 or 1.2.
- Use the Visual Studio template from the gstreamer-devel package and change the project type to library. Add the c files taken from the sources/glue folder and compile the glue library. The library should be called libgstreamersharpglue-1.0.0.dll
- Put the managed parts together with the native symbols.
EDIT: Compiling the glue is now easier on Windows! Someone set up a project which can compile the glue using Visual Studio on Windows. I have a fork which has binaries at https://github.com/xDarkice/libgstreamersharpglue
Problem
i'm developer of AudioCuesheetEditor, an application for editing audio cuesheets. The new Version should be able to play back sound, so I would like to use gstreamer as backend. I investigated a bit in gstreamer and found out, that I need to use version 1.x with gstreamer-sharp 0.99.x binding. No problem, downloaded gstreamer-sharp 0.99.0, opened the solution with monodevelop (on linux) or xamarin (on windows) and tried to build the dll, but that didn't work. I get the error "namespace Gst.GLib" not found. I'm developing with xamarin/monodevelop and need to have a portable app (working with mono/.net). Can anyone help me, get gstreamer-sharp build? Thanks in advance!