From acf83f17c2d8abfc579fddd5b628bf1a35e4f883 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2019 00:00:10 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] README.md: Document how to build the qt5 plugin --- README.md | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 24b5f11dac..33f4a2ac70 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -38,6 +38,17 @@ NOTE: on fedora (and maybe other distributions) replace `ninja` with `ninja-buil # Development environment +## Building the Qt5 QML plugin + +If `qmake` is not in `PATH` and pkgconfig files are not available, you can +point the `QMAKE` env var to the Qt5 installation of your choosing before +running `meson` as shown above. + +The plugin will be automatically enabled if possible, but you can ensure that +it is built by passing `-Dgst-plugins-good:qt5=enabled` to `meson`. This will +cause Meson to error out if the plugin could not be enabled. This also works +for all plugins in all GStreamer repositories. + ## Uninstalled environment gst-build also contains a special `uninstalled` target that lets you enter an