[Gambas-user] gb.media dependency problems on Debian Wheezy

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 02/09/2013 16:03, Willy Raets a écrit :
> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 16:25 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
>> Le 01/09/2013 16:24, Willy Raets a écrit :
>>> On Sun, 2013-09-01 at 16:02 +0200, Willy Raets wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what the proper dependencies for gb.media are, as
>>>> gb.media is disabled after doing a ./configure -C
>>>>
>>>> I had Gambas 3.3.90 installed on this system and it worked just fine but
>>>> it seems the 3.4.90 branch has extra dependencies.
>>>>
>>>> Compared to the 3.3.90 install I had to add libalure-deb to get
>>>> gb.openal being enabled and have added gstreamer0.10 (in hope to get
>>>> gb.media going)
>>>>
>>>> FYI this are the dependencies I installed (on Debian 7.1 Wheezy):
>>>>
>>>> apt-get install build-essential autoconf libbz2-dev libfbclient2
>>>> libmysqlclient-dev unixodbc-dev libpq-dev libsqlite0-dev libsqlite3-dev
>>>> libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libldap2-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
>>>> libgtkglext1-dev libpcre3-dev libsdl-sound1.2-dev libsdl-mixer1.2-dev
>>>> libsdl-image1.2-dev libsage-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libbonobo2-dev
>>>> libcos4-dev libomniorb4-dev librsvg2-dev libpoppler-dev
>>>> libpoppler-glib-dev libpoppler-private-dev libasound2-dev libesd0-dev
>>>> libdirectfb-dev libaa1-dev libxtst-dev libffi-dev kdelibs5-dev
>>>> firebird-dev libqt4-dev libglew-dev libimlib2-dev libv4l-dev
>>>> libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libgnome-keyring-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
>>>> linux-libc-dev libgsl0-dev libncurses5-dev gstreamer0.10
>>>> libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libcairo2-dev
>>>> libgmime-2.6-dev libalure-dev
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What am I missing to get gb.media going.
>>>> In ./configure -C the reason for disabling gb.media are:
>>>> gstreamer and gstreamer-video (that is why I installed gstreamer0.10,
>>>> but that didn't solve it)
>>>> In what Debain package have they been hidden? Anyone?
>>>
>>> Attached a screenshot of the gstreamer 0.10.36 parts installed.
>>>
>>
>> GStreamer 1.0 is needed, not GStreamer 0.10.
>
> All works just great with gstreamer 1.0.
>
> The 'Installation & Compilation' documentation dependency list still
> says gstreamer >= 0.10.31.  An update of documentation dependency list
> (http://gambasdoc.org/help/install?v3) would be a proper thing to do ;)
>
> Pity that most current stable distro releases (Debian 7 and Ubuntu
> 12.04, Lubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint 13 etc.) do not have gstreamer 1.0 in
> their repositories. So you always need to go to the newer distro repos
> to get the proper dependencies version.
>
> I see how this can pose a problem to those packaging Gambas for Precise
> (like Kendek and Sebs daily PPA's) or Debain 7 Wheezy( like Ian). Much
> respect to you guys that you manage to deliver a proper Gambas install
> anyway.
>
> This also might create problems in trying to get Gambas 3.4.x into the
> official Debian repository, as Ian is trying at the moment. So it will
> probably end up in unstable instead of stable (wheezy)!
>
> As I see it (for Debain and Ubuntu based distros):
> - the latest unstable versions of these distros will support all Gambas
> 3.4.x dependencies out of the box (meaning they are in the official
> repo)
> - the latest stable releases of these distros will not support Gambas
> 3.4.x out of the box.
>
> Is this a clever path to take for Gambas?
>

Gambas 3.4.x requires GStreamer 0.10. Only the development version needs 
GStreamer 1.0.

-- 
Benoît Minisini