[PD] [PD-announce] gem 0.93.1

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Aug 28, 2011, at 12:08 PM, IOhannes zmölnig wrote:

> On 08/28/2011 05:54 PM, Patrice Colet wrote:
>> hello IOhannes,
>>
>> is gem 0.93 compiled with mingw, if not, is it planned?
>
> it's not compiled with mingw, and it is not planned for 0.93
>
> Gem currently does not compile with mingw (see recent postings on
> gem-dev@), but it would be a nice feature to have for 0.94 (help would
> be appreciated; hint, hint :-))
>
> apart from mingw currently not properly compiling Gem at all, there  
> are
> some more things that ought be kept in mind:
> - i (personally) currently don't have time nor energy to setup a local
> mingw build machine for Gem
> - for video capture and image acquisition Gem uses DirectShow and i
> remember that there were problems using those with mingw
> - all the DirectShow stuff is no longer part of Gem proper, but  
> lives in
> plugins (cool); unfortunately the plugins (still only) have a C++ API,
> so you couldn't use a plugin compiled with M$VC within Gem compiled on
> mingw.
>
> so having Gem build on MinGW would be great, but it is not very high  
> on
> my todo list (but again, if you feel like doing the work, go ahead; in
> this case, it might be a good idea to join gem-dev@)


I believe that the DirectShow stuff was resolved many years ago.  But  
I've never tried it.  Here's instructions on how to do it with DirectX  
9:
http://nova.polymtl.ca/~guardia/programming.php

.hc


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