Volunteering to update Windows build instructions

[bradaisa]

I've been working through building on Windows -- there are a number of errors and omissions in the Windows setup instructions (some serious!!!), that I've been painfully discovering through trial and error, googling, and some helpful tips from the gstreamer community. I wanted to volunteer to update this page:
http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Building+from+source+using+Cerbero

My employer wants me to write a blog post on building gstreamer on Windows for our company blog, and I'd like it to be more than a series of corrections and additions to the official docs! :)

You can contact me directly baisa AT cardinalpeak DOT com

[Nicolas Dufresne-4]

Le mercredi 30 mars 2016 à 09:03 -0700, bradaisa a écrit :

> I've been working through building on Windows -- there are a number
> of errors
> and omissions in the Windows setup instructions (some serious!!!),
> that I've
> been painfully discovering through trial and error, googling, and
> some
> helpful tips from the gstreamer community. I wanted to volunteer to
> update
> this page:
> http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Building+from+source+using+C
> erbero

gstreamer.com is owned by Fluendo who have been inactive for years. The
GStreamer project have not control over that domain.

>
> My employer wants me to write a blog post on building gstreamer on
> Windows
> for our company blog, and I'd like it to be more than a series of
> corrections and additions to the official docs! :)
>
> You can contact me directly baisa AT cardinalpeak DOT com

What would be ideal, is someone to contribute a better website, that
would be easier to contribute to. Meanwhile, documentation should
probably get on the GStreamer Website, blogs can be nice too (you can
request your blog to be added to https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/plan
et/)

Website code: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/www/
Website URI: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/

cheers,
Nicolas
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[bradaisa]

I could completely update this page (which makes references to Visual Studio 2003... ;)

https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data/doc/gstreamer/head/manual/html/section-integration-win32.html

But this isn't a wiki, so I'd need to get instructions on how this material is actually generated. (I'm not familiar with the GNU docs system.)

[Tim-Philipp Müller-2]

On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 13:13 -0400, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:

> http://docs.gstreamer.com/display/GstSDK/Building+from+source+using
> > +Cerbero
> gstreamer.com is owned by Fluendo who have been inactive for years.
> The GStreamer project have not control over that domain.

Actually, Fluendo have kindly transfered control of the domain to Wim
recently (who is holding it on behalf of the GStreamer project).

We do not have access to the content hosted there (i.e the old server),
but we can point it to e.g. freedesktop.org. The reason why we haven't
done so yet is that we don't have a replacement for the old content on
gstreamer.freedesktop.org yet.

> > My employer wants me to write a blog post on building gstreamer on
> > Windows for our company blog, and I'd like it to be more than a
> > series of corrections and additions to the official docs! :)
> >
> > You can contact me directly baisa AT cardinalpeak DOT com
> What would be ideal, is someone to contribute a better website, that
> would be easier to contribute to. Meanwhile, documentation should
> probably get on the GStreamer Website, blogs can be nice too (you can
> request your blog to be added
> to https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/planet/)

The content of the site is now also available here under floss license:
https://github.com/fluendo/docs.gstreamer.com

What would be ideal is either a patch to those existing pages, or some
newly-written pages. Please write any new pages in markdown and put
them into bugzilla when done.

Thanks for helping out with this!

Cheers
 -Tim

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