Re: Building and Installing the latest versions of gstreamer in Ubuntu 22.04LTS

Many thanks for this clear info.

- Which version of meson did you use ? and how was it installed ?

I had tried with :
sudo apt install meson

but (on Ubuntu 22.04) this installs 0.61 which hits an issue somewhere in the gst build. 
meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Meson version is 0.61.2 but project requires >= 0.62.0

so I used :
pip3 install --user meson==0.62.0
export PATH=$PATH:/home/ubuntu/.local/bin

However, this hit an error at 
meson setup --prefix=/opt/thirdParties/gstreamer1-22-4 -Dlibdir=lib builddir
reporting no meson, so I went ahead and added 
sudo apt install meson

I tested this sequence on a clean Ubuntu 22.04 instance, and it got all the way up to:
sudo ninja install -C builddir

where it failed with :
ERROR: Build directory has been generated with Meson version 0.62.0, which is incompatible with the current version 0.61.2.
FAILED: meson-install 

I have been trawling my way through this for 2 weeks now over and over using different methods on clean OS installs, and meson version has proven to be a bug bear.

Also, could you share any dependancies you recommend ahead of this command sequence ?

> On 18 Jul 2023, at 17:59, cfd new <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 
> Get Source
> 
> get source: git clone ​https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer.git <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer.git>
> git tag -l <==== to list all tags
> git checkout tags/1.22.2 <==== for example
> Build and install
> 
> cd gstreamer
> meson setup --prefix=/opt/thirdParties/gstreamer1-22-2 -Dlibdir=lib builddir
> ninja -C builddir
> sudo ninja install -C builddir
> 
> 
> Do not build into default places. Otherwise, you may have hard time to clean it up if you want to remove it or change it.
> Set the proper path for your own use after it is installed. 
> 
> Also you need to build video drivers.
> On Monday, July 17, 2023, 03:25:09 a.m. EDT, GST Developer via gstreamer-devel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> 
>