gst-full: add 'gst-full-' features options

These options allow to select a set of features from a given
plugin with the following syntax:

-Dgst-full-plugins=plugin1;plugin10
-Dgst-full-elements=plugin2:element1,element2
-Dgst-full-typefind-functions=plugins3:func
-Dgst-full-device-providers=plugin4,dp1
-Dgst-full-dynamic-types=plugin5:dt1

By default all the enabled plugin are registered and
gst-full-plugins will allow to include only a set of plugin

If a feature(element, typefind etc.) is selected from a plugin,
the plugin is removed from the plugins list.

Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-build/-/merge_requests/199>

README.md

@@ -138,6 +138,33 @@ the gstreamer-full library, allowing the linker to garbage collect unused code
 and so reduce the total library size. A default script `gstreamer-full-default.map`
 declares only glib/gstreamer symbols as public.
 
+One can use the `gst-full-plugins` option to pass a list of plugins to be registered
+in the gstreamer-full library. The default value is '*' which means that all the plugins selected
+during the build process will be registered statically. An empty value will prevent any plugins to
+be registered.
+
+One can select a specific set of features with `gst-full-elements`, `gst-full-typefind-functions`, `gst-full-device-providers` or `gst-full-dynamic-types` to select specific feature from a plugin.
+When a feature has been listed in one of those options, the other features from its plugin will no longer be automatically included, even if the plugin is listed in `gst-full-plugins`.
+
+The user must insure that all selected plugins and features (element, typefind, etc.) have been
+enabled during the build configuration.
+
+To register features, the syntax is the following:
+plugins are separated by ';' and features from a plugin starts after ':' and are ',' separated.
+
+As an example:
+ * `-Dgst-full-plugins=coreelements;playback;typefindfunctions;alsa;pbtypes`: enable only `coreelements`, `playback`, `typefindfunctions`, `alsa`, `pbtypes` plugins.
+ * `-Dgst-full-elements=coreelements:filesrc,fakesink,identity;alsa:alsasrc`: enable only `filesrc`, `identity` and `fakesink` elements from `coreelements` and `alsasrc` element from `alsa` plugin.
+ * `-Dgst-full-typefind-functions=typefindfunctions:wav,flv`: enable only typefind func `wav` and `flv` from `typefindfunctions`
+ * `-Dgst-full-device-providers=alsa:alsadeviceprovider`: enable `alsadeviceprovider` from `alsa`.
+ * `-Dgst-full-dynamic-types=pbtypes:video_multiview_flagset`:  enable `video_multiview_flagset` from `pbtypes
+
+All features from the `playback` plugin will be enabled and the other plugins will be restricted to the specific features requested.
+
+All the selected features will be registered into a dedicated `NULL` plugin name.
+
+This will cause the features/plugins that are not registered to not be included in the final gstreamer-full library.
+
 This is an experimental feature, backward uncompatible changes could still be
 made in the future.
 

meson.build

@@ -249,12 +249,27 @@ libraries_map = {
 
 if get_option('default_library') == 'static'
   # Generate a .c file which declare and register all built plugins
+  plugins_names = []
+  foreach plugin: all_plugins
+    plugins_names += plugin.full_path()
+  endforeach
+  all_plugin_names = ';'.join(plugins_names)
+
+  static_plugins = get_option('gst-full-plugins')
+  if static_plugins == '*'
+    static_plugins = all_plugin_names
+  endif
   generate_init_static_plugins = find_program('scripts/generate_init_static_plugins.py')
   init_static_plugins_c = configure_file(
     output: 'gstinitstaticplugins.c',
     command : [generate_init_static_plugins,
-               '@OUTPUT@',
+               '-o ' + '@OUTPUT@',
-               all_plugins_paths]
+               '-p ' + static_plugins,
+               '-e ' + get_option('gst-full-elements'),
+               '-t ' + get_option('gst-full-typefind-functions'),
+               '-d ' + get_option('gst-full-device-providers'),
+               '-T ' + get_option('gst-full-dynamic-types')
+               ]
   )
 
   gstfull_link_args = cc.get_supported_link_arguments(['-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions'])

meson_options.txt

@@ -23,6 +23,16 @@ option('gst-full-libraries', type : 'array', value : [],
   description : '''List of libraries to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI. gstreamer, glib and gobject are always included.''')
 option('gst-full-version-script', type : 'string', value: 'gstreamer-full-default.map',
   description : 'path of the version script to be used by the linker, see https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/LD-Version-Scripts.html')
+option('gst-full-plugins', type : 'string', value : '*',
+  description : '''List of plugins to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI with the syntax plugin1;plugin2. By default '*' will export all plugins enabled by the build process.''')
+option('gst-full-elements', type : 'string', value : '',
+  description : '''List of elements to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI with the syntax plugin1;plugin2:element1,element2. By default '' will export all element of the enabled plugin.''')
+option('gst-full-typefind-functions', type : 'string', value : '',
+  description : '''List of typefind functions to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI with the syntax plugin:func1,func2. By default '' will export all typefind functions of the enabled plugin.''')
+option('gst-full-device-providers', type : 'string', value : '',
+  description : '''List of device providers to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI with the syntax plugin1:dp1;plugin2:dp1:dp2. By default '' will export all device provider of the enabled plugin.''')
+option('gst-full-dynamic-types', type : 'string', value : '',
+  description : '''List of dynamic types to expose in gstreamer-full's ABI with the syntax plugin:dt1,dt2. By default '' will export all device provider of the enabled plugin.''')
 
 # Common options, automatically inherited by subprojects
 option('tests', type : 'feature', value : 'auto', description : 'Build tests')

scripts/generate_init_static_plugins.py

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ from string import Template
 TEMPLATE = Template('''
 #include <gst/gst.h>
 
+$elements_declaration
+$typefind_funcs_declaration
+$device_providers_declaration
+$dynamic_types_declaration
 $plugins_declaration
 
 void
@@ -14,30 +18,101 @@ gst_init_static_plugins (void)
 {
   static gsize initialization_value = 0;
   if (g_once_init_enter (&initialization_value)) {
+    $elements_registration
+    $typefind_funcs_registration
+    $device_providers_registration
+    $dynamic_types_registration
     $plugins_registration
+
     g_once_init_leave (&initialization_value, 1);
   }
 }
 ''')
+# Retrieve the plugin name as it can be a plugin filename
+def get_plugin_name(name):
+    for p in plugins:
+        if name in p:
+            return p
+    return ''
+
+def process_features(features_list, plugins, feature_prefix):
+    plugins_list = plugins
+    feature_declaration = []
+    feature_registration = []
+    if features_list is not None:
+        feature_plugins =  features_list.split(';')
+        for plugin in feature_plugins:
+            split = plugin.split(':')
+            plugin_name = split[0].strip()
+            if len(split) == 2:
+                if (get_plugin_name(plugin_name)) != '':
+                    plugins_list.remove(get_plugin_name(plugin_name))
+                features = split[1].split(',')
+                for feature in features:
+                    feature = feature.replace("-", "_")
+                    feature_declaration += ['%s_REGISTER_DECLARE(%s);' % (feature_prefix, feature)]
+                    feature_registration += ['%s_REGISTER(%s, NULL);' % (feature_prefix, feature)]
+    return (plugins_list, feature_declaration, feature_registration)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
-    parser.add_argument(dest="output", help="Output file")
+    parser.add_argument('-o', dest="output", help="Output file")
-    parser.add_argument(dest="plugins", help="The list of plugins")
+    parser.add_argument('-p','--plugins', nargs='?', default='', dest="plugins", help="The list of plugins")
-
+    parser.add_argument('-e', '--elements', nargs='?', default='', dest="elements", help="The list of plugin:elements")
+    parser.add_argument('-t', '--type-finds', nargs='?', default='', dest="typefindfuncs", help="The list of plugin:typefinds")
+    parser.add_argument('-d', '--devide-providers', nargs='?', default='', dest="deviceproviders", help="The list of plugin:deviceproviders")
+    parser.add_argument('-T', '--dynamic-types', nargs='?', default='', dest="dynamictypes", help="The list of plugin:dynamictypes")
     options = parser.parse_args()
+    if options.output is None:
+        output_file = 'gstinitstaticplugins.c'
+    else:
+        output_file = options.output
+    enable_staticelements_plugin = 0;
+    elements_declaration = []
+    elements_registration = []
+    typefind_funcs_declaration = []
+    typefind_funcs_registration = []
+    device_providers_declaration = []
+    device_providers_registration = []
+    dynamic_types_declaration = []
+    dynamic_types_registration = []
+    plugins_declaration = []
+    plugins_registration = []
 
-    names = set()
+    if options.plugins is None:
-    for plugin in options.plugins.split(os.pathsep):
+        plugins = []
+    else:
+        plugins = options.plugins.split(';')
+
+    # process the features
+    (plugins, elements_declaration, elements_registration) = process_features(options.elements, plugins, 'GST_ELEMENT')
+    (plugins, typefind_funcs_declaration, typefind_funcs_registration) = process_features(options.typefindfuncs, plugins, 'GST_TYPE_FIND')
+    (plugins, device_providers_declaration, device_providers_registration) = process_features(options.deviceproviders, plugins, 'GST_DEVICE_PROVIDER')
+    (plugins, dynamic_types_declaration, dynamic_types_registration) = process_features(options.dynamictypes, plugins, 'GST_DYNAMIC_TYPE')
+
+    # Enable plugin or elements according to the ';' separated list.
+    for plugin in plugins:
+        split = plugin.split(':')
+        plugin_name = split[0]
+        if plugin_name == '':
+          continue
         filename = os.path.basename(plugin)
         if filename.startswith('libgst') and filename.endswith('.a'):
-            names.add(filename[len('libgst'):-len('.a')])
+            plugin_name = filename[len('libgst'):-len('.a')]
+        plugins_registration += ['GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(%s);' % (plugin_name)]
+        plugins_declaration += ['GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_DECLARE(%s);' % (plugin_name)]
 
-    registration = ['GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_REGISTER(%s);' % name for name in names]
+    with open(output_file.strip(), "w") as f:
-    declaration = ['GST_PLUGIN_STATIC_DECLARE(%s);' % name for name in names]
+        static_elements_plugin = ''
-
-    with open(options.output, "w") as f:
         f.write(TEMPLATE.substitute({
-            'plugins_declaration': '\n'.join(declaration),
+            'elements_declaration': '\n'.join(elements_declaration),
-            'plugins_registration': '\n  '.join(registration),
+            'elements_registration': '\n    '.join(elements_registration),
+            'typefind_funcs_declaration': '\n'.join(typefind_funcs_declaration),
+            'typefind_funcs_registration': '\n    '.join(typefind_funcs_registration),
+            'device_providers_declaration': '\n'.join(device_providers_declaration),
+            'device_providers_registration': '\n    '.join(device_providers_registration),
+            'dynamic_types_declaration': '\n'.join(dynamic_types_declaration),
+            'dynamic_types_registration': '\n    '.join(dynamic_types_registration),
+            'plugins_declaration': '\n'.join(plugins_declaration),
+            'plugins_registration': '\n    '.join(plugins_registration),
             }))