gst-plugin: Provide option to include plugin statically #569
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I don't see the point of being able to load them dynamically.
When building with -Dbuiltin-loaders=true (default false, due to some external components depending on it), the clapper gst plugin will be built as static library and linked into libclapper-gtk.
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Hi. Thanks for PR. I do agree, these "importer modules" should go away. Even more so now, since it looks like there are even bigger compatibility issues with GStreamer 1.26 (issue: #560). But due to the above, I am not sure ATM whether to get this change in or just work on the new/next sink sooner and disable this "legacy" code by default (or maybe even drop it). |
I don't see why not. I'll assume that you'll have to keep the old sink around, as others (mainly hanabi) are depending on it, but those loader modules are basically internal to clapper in the first place and being able to dynamically load them doesn't really help anybody. |
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This changeset adds a new meson option to allow including the clapper gst plugin statically. Additionally, I've dropped the ability of loading importers dynamically altogether, as it was easier this way and I didn't see the point of it.