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What's the relation between OAH Build System and the GStreamer WinBuilds?

Asked by wl2776

I've recentrly found this site: http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es

They state that "The GStreamer WinBuilds project goal is to provide precompiled GStreamer binary packages for Microsoft Windows, including a large collection of encoding/decoding plugins. It is based on the OSSBuild developing suite."

OAH Build system is noted in the Developer's links.

What is the relation between OAH Build System and that project?

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Haakon Sporsheim (ieei) said : 		#1

As far as I know, they started with OABuild. OAHBuild is next generation of OABuild. You will need to ask the guys behind http://www.gstreamer-winbuild.ylatuya.es how they went on. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the just used OABuild as a starting point.

And I guess they are unrelated now, as they are focusing on GStreamer, and OAH Build tries to define one way of building all Open source software (using the Microsoft compiler/linker). (Which btw isn't too easy).

A side note:
OAHBuild sits on top of Visual studio and the build engine for C\C++ integration called VCBuild. As of Visual Studio 2010, which will be released in first half of 2010, VCBuild will be deprecated. So OAH Build will probably die out. I am currently moving over to the the next generation (current backend for building .NET apps) build system called msbuild. See https://launchpad.net/hsbuild

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David Hoyt (dhoyt) said : 		#2

I'm the maintainer of OSSBuild and work w/ the GStreamer WinBuilds team. They used OABuild initially and then we joined forces to work on OSSBuild. A lot of the work is similar to what you're providing in OAHBuild/HSBuild - we just do a mix of mingw (gcc) builds and MS builds w/ a focus on libs used by GStreamer. However the libs are usable for any purpose. We provide dev packages that include the .libs, headers, etc. We're working on a WiX-based system of merge modules for inclusion in Windows installers and as Haakon noted (b/c he's right), we'll eventually be dropping VCBuild support in favor of MSBuild. Anyway, sorry about the advertisement - just trying to explain the difference. Go to http://code.google.com/p/ossbuild/ for more details.

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wl2776 (wl2776) said : 		#3

Thanks.