<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Compiling</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.72.0"> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="GStreamer Base Plugins 0.10 Library Reference Manual"> <link rel="up" href="gstreamer-plugins-base.html" title="Part I. GStreamer Base Plugins Libraries"> <link rel="prev" href="gstreamer-plugins-base.html" title="Part I. GStreamer Base Plugins Libraries"> <link rel="next" href="gstreamer-audio.html" title="Audio Library"> <meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.8 (XML mode)"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="part" href="gstreamer-plugins-base.html" title="Part I. GStreamer Base Plugins Libraries"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-audio.html" title="Audio Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-cdda.html" title="CDDA Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-ffft.html" title="FFT Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-floatcast.html" title="FloatCast Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-interfaces.html" title="Interfaces Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-netbuffer.html" title="Network Buffer Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-riff.html" title="Riff Media Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-rtp.html" title="RTP Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-rtsp.html" title="RTSP Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-sdp.html" title="SDP Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-tag.html" title="Tag Support Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-base-utils.html" title="Base Utils Library"> <link rel="chapter" href="gstreamer-video.html" title="Video Library"> <link rel="part" href="gstreamer-libs-hierarchy.html" title="Part II. Object Hierarchy"> <link rel="index" href="api-index.html" title="Index"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table class="navigation" id="top" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tr valign="middle"> <td><a accesskey="p" href="gstreamer-plugins-base.html"><img src="left.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td> <td><a accesskey="u" href="gstreamer-plugins-base.html"><img src="up.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Up"></a></td> <td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td> <th width="100%" align="center">GStreamer Base Plugins 0.10 Library Reference Manual</th> <td><a accesskey="n" href="gstreamer-audio.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> </tr></table> <div class="refentry" lang="en"> <a name="compiling"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><table width="100%"><tr> <td valign="top"> <h2><span class="refentrytitle">Compiling</span></h2> <p>Compiling against the base plugins libraries — How to compile against the base plugins libraries </p> </td> <td valign="top" align="right"></td> </tr></table></div> <div class="refsect1" lang="en"> <a name="id2547372"></a><h2>Compiling against the base plugins libraries</h2> <p> To compile against these libraries, you need to tell the compiler where to find the header files and libraries. This is done with the <span class="application">pkg-config</span> utility. </p> <p> The following interactive shell session demonstrates how <span class="application">pkg-config</span> is used: </p> <pre class="programlisting"> $ pkg-config --cflags gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-0.10 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2 $ pkg-config --libs gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10 -Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lgstreamer-0.10 -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm -lglib-2.0 </pre> <p> </p> <p> Note that, because of the number of libraries provided in this package, the pkg-config information <span class="emphasis"><em>does not add -l flags</em></span> itself to choose the libraries to link to. You must add these yourself to select which of the libraries you want to use. </p> </div> </div> </body> </html>
