zlib is required, and if it isn't found it is checked several ways and
then forced via subproject(). This code was added in commit
b93e37592a, to account for systems where
zlib doesn't have pkg-config files installed.
But Meson already does dependency fallback, and also, since 0.54.0, does
the in-between checks for find_library('z') and has_header('zlib.h') via
the "system" type dependency. Simplify dependency lookup by marking it
as required, which also makes sure that the console log doesn't
confusingly list "not found".
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2484>
... in favour of dep.get_variable('foo', ..) which in some
cases allows for further cleanups in future since we can
extract variables from pkg-config dependencies as well as
internal dependencies using this mechanism.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1183>
Introduces a `libraries` variable that contains all libraries in a
list with the following format:
``` meson
libraries = [
[pkg_name, {
'lib': library_object
'gir': [ {full gir definition in a dict } ]
],
....
]
```
It therefore refactors the way we build the gir so that we can reuse the
same information to build them against 'gstreamer-full' in gst-build
when linking statically
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1093>
