gst_plugin_load_file

[Greg Rutz-2]

I am currently using GStreamer 0.10.20 and loving it.  Great work, all of
you.

I have a question about the implementation of g_plugin_load_file.  I would
like to pass plain filenames without absolute or relative path directories
and let my run-time loader use its own search path to find the shared
library that contains the plugin.  However, because of a call to g_stat() in
g_plugin_load_file, it will always fail unless the shared library happens to
be in the current working directory.

My question is... does gstreamer depend on having relative or absolute
directories specified for its plugin's shared libraries?  I commented out
the g_stat() call and re-compiled gstreamer and it worked as I had
originally hoped, but I'm not sure if I've created a potential problem that
I'm just not seeing at this time.

Greg

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[Simon Holm Thøgersen-3]

ons, 19 11 2008 kl. 18:06 -0700, skrev Greg Rutz:

> I am currently using GStreamer 0.10.20 and loving it.  Great work, all of
> you.
>
> I have a question about the implementation of g_plugin_load_file.  I would
> like to pass plain filenames without absolute or relative path directories
> and let my run-time loader use its own search path to find the shared
> library that contains the plugin.  However, because of a call to g_stat() in
> g_plugin_load_file, it will always fail unless the shared library happens to
> be in the current working directory.
>
> My question is... does gstreamer depend on having relative or absolute
> directories specified for its plugin's shared libraries?  I commented out
> the g_stat() call and re-compiled gstreamer and it worked as I had
> originally hoped, but I'm not sure if I've created a potential problem that
> I'm just not seeing at this time.

Does using the --gst-plugin-path command line argument or the
GST_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable do the trick for you?


Simon Holm Thøgersen


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