Building GStreamer 1.20 with Meson¶

Steps and build options for compiling GStreamer 1.20 from source with Meson.

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Commands and configuration¶

cd gstreamer
meson build

pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ meson configure | grep 264
 libopenh264          auto               [enabled, disabled, auto]    libopenh264
 libx264            auto               [enabled, disabled, auto]    libx264
 openh264            auto               [enabled, disabled, auto]    H.264 video codec plugin
 uvch264            auto               [enabled, disabled, auto]    UVC compliant H.264 camera source plugin
 x264              auto               [enabled, disabled, auto]    H.264 video encoder plugin based on libx264 (GPL - only built if
 x264_libraries                                          Colon separated list of additional x264 library paths, e.g. for

meson --reconfigure build

meson --reconfigure build --prefix=/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer/install

ninja -j36 -C build

meson install -C build

pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ cd build/
pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer/build$ ls
build.ninja compile_commands.json GstDocumentedSubprojects GstPluginsPath.json meson-info meson-logs meson-private meson-uninstalled subprojects tests
pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer/build$ ninja devenv
[0/1] Running external command devenv (wrapped by meson to set env)
[gst-1.20] pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer/build$

# 查看有哪些版本
ls /usr/bin/python*
# 设定：
alias python=/usr/bin/python3.8
alias python3=/usr/bin/python3.8

sudo apt-get install meson

pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ meson --version
0.45.1
pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ pip3 install --user meson
Collecting meson
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/95/0a/c961c525cd1b2914fa9cc85692f25a44012759ca1f25a96bda3fec74aa09/meson-0.61.4-py3-none-any.whl (863kB)
  100% |████████████████████████████████| 870kB 1.7MB/s
Installing collected packages: meson
Successfully installed meson-0.61.4
pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ meson --version
0.45.1

pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ export PATH=~/.local/bin:$PATH
pub@ubuntu64:/mnt/work/zheng/gstreamer/gstreamer$ meson --version
0.61.4

$ git clone -b 1.20 https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-rtsp-server.git
meson --reconfigure build --prefix=/home/mhpub/gstreamer/gst-rtsp-server/build/out

Notes¶

Use these examples as a starting point and adjust versions, device names, codecs, and network addresses for the target platform.