Unable to build GStreamer for Android Tutorials

Question

I\'m running into a number of issues attempting to build the GStreamer Android tutorials.

My environment is:

• Mac OS X 7
• Android SDK version 17

Answer 1

I posted the above question on the GStreamer Android mailing list and got the following response:

Hi, Unfortunately we forgot to include pkg-config in this release for Mac OS X. You can download it from here: http://macpkg.sourceforge.net/

I used homebrew to install pkg-config and was able to build all of the Android Tutorials via the command line using ndk-build.

I still have a number of issues in Eclipse:

1. * GSTREAMER_SDK_ROOT_ANDROID is not defined! - I can not get Eclipse to pick up this variable
2. If I hard code the variable into the make file I then get /bin/sh: pkg-config: command not found - pkg-config is installed and working via the CLI

I believe some of the issues are related to Android Issue 33788 and I have attempted to resolve them using CDT 8.0.2 instead of CDT 8.10 but it did not solve either of the above issues.

I have worked around the problem for now by doing the following:

1. Disabled CDT building for my project
2. Building the NDK code using the CLI ndk-build
3. Building and deploying the application to my device via Eclipse as normal