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<refentry id="compiling" revision="17 Jan 2002">

<refmeta>

<refentrytitle>Compiling</refentrytitle>

<manvolnum>3</manvolnum>

<refmiscinfo>GStreamer-Base Library</refmiscinfo>

</refmeta>

<refnamediv>

<refname>Compiling against the base plugins libraries</refname>

<refpurpose>

How to compile against the base plugins libraries

</refpurpose>

</refnamediv>

<refsect1>

<title>Compiling against the base plugins libraries</title>

<para>

To compile against these libraries, you need to tell the compiler where to 

find the header files and libraries. This is done with the

<application>pkg-config</application> utility.

</para>

<para>

The following interactive shell session demonstrates how

<application>pkg-config</application> is used:

<programlisting>

$ pkg-config --cflags gstreamer-plugins-base-&GST_API_VERSION;

-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -pthread -I/usr/include/gstreamer-&GST_API_VERSION; -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2

$ pkg-config --libs gstreamer-plugins-base-&GST_API_VERSION;

-Wl,--export-dynamic -pthread -lgstreamer-&GST_API_VERSION; -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lgthread-2.0 -lxml2 -lpthread -lz -lm -lglib-2.0

</programlisting>

</para>

<para>

Note that, because of the number of libraries provided in this package,

the pkg-config information <emphasis>does not add -l flags</emphasis> itself

to choose the libraries to link to.  You must add these yourself to select

which of the libraries you want to use.

</para>

</refsect1>

</refentry>