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I am looking for gstreamer development tarballs (version 0.10.17) for Slackware 12 but can't find any. I can find plenty of Debian versions and RPM versions but NO tarball versions.
I have installed gstreamer and its plugins with tarballs but now I need the development packages in order to compile Cupid video capture. It complains it can't find gstreamer interfaces or gstreamer g-conf and I'm pretty sure it is because I need the development files because my search path seems pretty standard.
I just did some digging. Looks like your trying to build some old software. I think gstreamer-gconf came with gst-plugins-0.8 but was dropped in the 0.10 series. Dunno. There is a CPAN module with the same name but I don't think that's what you want. You could try it anyway. The cupid tarball is exactally 3 years old now. It seems to be looking for 3 year old deps that aren't in development anymore. Good luck.
Here is the error message from ./configure when trying to compile Cupid. Scroll to the bottom (and then to the right) to see the error. Word wrapping didn't work too well on that last line.
Code:
root@royhost:/home/roy/cupid-0.0.2# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/ginstall -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking dlfcn.h usability... yes
checking dlfcn.h presence... yes
checking for dlfcn.h... yes
checking for g++... g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes
checking dependency style of g++... gcc3
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E
checking for g77... g77
checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes
checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes
checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 32768
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok
checking for objdir... .libs
checking for ar... ar
checking for ranlib... ranlib
checking for strip... strip
checking if gcc static flag works... yes
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... no
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... no
checking for dlopen... no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
configure: creating libtool
appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool
checking for ld used by g++... /usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for shl_load... (cached) no
checking for shl_load in -ldld... (cached) no
checking for dlopen... (cached) no
checking for dlopen in -ldl... (cached) yes
checking whether a program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes
checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... (cached) yes
appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build shared libraries... yes
checking whether to build static libraries... no
checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC
checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes
checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes
checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/i486-slackware-linux/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics... GNU/Linux ld.so
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.23... 0.31.2 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking locale.h usability... yes
checking locale.h presence... yes
checking for locale.h... yes
checking for LC_MESSAGES... yes
checking libintl.h usability... yes
checking libintl.h presence... yes
checking for libintl.h... yes
checking for ngettext in libc... yes
checking for dgettext in libc... yes
checking for bind_textdomain_codeset... yes
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for dcgettext... yes
checking for gmsgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for catalogs to be installed... ca cs de en_CA en_GB es nb nl pt_BR sv zh_CN
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for glib-2.0 gobject-2.0 gthread-2.0 gmodule-2.0... yes
checking GLIB_CFLAGS... -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
checking GLIB_LIBS... -pthread -Wl,--export-dynamic -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0
checking for gstreamer-0.8 >= 0.8.7.1... checking for gstreamer-interfaces-0.8 >= 0.8.7 gstreamer-gconf-0.8 >= 0.8.7... configure: error: Gstreamer Interfaces or GConf >= 0.8.7 was not found
root@royhost:/home/roy/cupid-0.0.2#
I'm sure gstreamer is installed correctly because I can play movies with Kaffeine with gstreamer as the backend.
I can always record video with "cat /dev/video0 > mpeg.test" but it would be so nice to have an application that could automatically perform the same task.
Yea, I tried to compile it also. Looks like you need gstreamer-gconf which I'm having a hard time locating. I think it was part of the gst-plugins-0.8 package but is now removed from gst-plugins-0.10.....
I'm assuming you have 0.10 installed, thus the reason why it's complaining about not finding gstreamer-gconf....
Looks to be old software. Try the perl module or roll back to gstreamer-0.8 and friends. Otherwise, I doubt you'll be able to get cupid to compile.
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