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

[Willy Raets]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 16:29 +0200, Benoît Minisini wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you, good to know

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Willy (aka gbWilly)

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