Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Making gstreamer requires glib and glib is unable to find libffi

[Alan Leurck]

Thanks Tony.
I added this and it compiled correctly.
Thanks again.

Al

On 12/10/2012 5:35 AM, Tony Theodore wrote:
> On 10/12/2012, at 12:08 PM, Alan Leurck <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > I've run into an issue when trying to create the gsteamer 1.0.3 suite of programs 
> > using the latest(master) from the git repository I downloaded this afternoon.  
> > GStreamer requires glib and when trying to make glib, the libffi library is not 
> > found.  However, the library was created and is of the correct version (> 3.0).
> >
> > I have found the following in the glib associated log directory.
> >
> >         checking for LIBFFI... no
> >         configure: error: Package requirements (libffi >= 3.0.0) were not met:
> >
> >         No package 'libffi' found
> >
> > The libffi.a  library exists in my ~/mxe.git/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/lib as well as 
> > the libffi-3.0.11 directory with the header .h files.
> > Attached is the log file for the glib configure.
> >
> > It would appear that the configure process is unable to locate this new library.
> > Any suggestions on how to resolve would be useful.
> > Thank you.
> > Al
> Hi Al,
>
> Since we build a native glib (on some systems), a native install of libffi is 
> required. This has been added to the docs in master, but not in stable (the 
> version at mxe.cc):
>
> https://github.com/mxe/mxe/commit/a8e3b5ffd525a51852897e758b425f4d2d167d17
>
> Check the package name for you system (something like libffi, libffi0dev, or 
> libffi-devel) and install it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tony