[NIGHTLY - ubuntu 24.04] Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.

[sloev]

ofx commit sha: dd1d70e
release: of_v20250111_linux64_gcc6_release.tar.gz

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release:	24.04
Codename:	noble

$ arch                                                               
x86_64

# after linux/ubuntu install_dependencies...

$ cd scripts/linux
$ ./compileOF.sh    
Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-app-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-app-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found
makefileCommon/config.shared.mk:316: *** couldn't find gstreamer-app-0.10 pkg-config package or it's dependencies, did you run the latest install_dependencies.sh?.  Stop.
there has been a problem compiling Debug OF library
please report this problem in the forums

[sloev]

i hope this gets seen and fixed in #8255

[danoli3]

try and run ./scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependancies.sh

Need this all auto wrapped to common file or just call of setup or of update of download linux

[sloev]

I tried the install dependencies step as mentioned but the problem seems that the mentioned gatreamer version is unavaialable in ubuntu 24.04

I think it all comes down to ubuntu 24.04 maybe being absent from gh workflow builds (which seems focussed on 22.04) and therefore these issues dont get caught

[sloev]

this is simply incredible. i find no way of using openframeworks since no documented methods work (very frustrated)

what i do (on ubuntu 24.04 as said)

1. download nightly release for linux64
2. scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh
3. scripts/linux/compileOf.sh

and i get

Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-app-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found
Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-app-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found
makefileCommon/config.shared.mk:316: *** couldn't find gstreamer-app-0.10 pkg-config package or it's dependencies, did you run the latest install_dependencies.sh?.  Stop.
there has been a problem compiling Debug OF library
please report this problem in the forums

[danoli3]

yeah package manager is so out of date even gstreamer 1.0 is full of 24 CVE's

I almost got it compiling will sort this out with gstreamer 1.24.0

[danoli3]

and that is linking to gstreamer 0.1.0 from prior 22.04 linux and before. CVE city

[valexey]

this is simply incredible. i find no way of using openframeworks since no documented methods work (very frustrated)

what i do (on ubuntu 24.04 as said)

1. download nightly release for linux64

2. scripts/linux/ubuntu/install_dependencies.sh

3. scripts/linux/compileOf.sh

and i get

Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing gstreamer-app-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found Package gstreamer-app-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing gstreamer-app-0.10.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'gstreamer-app-0.10', required by 'virtual:world', not found
makefileCommon/config.shared.mk:316: *** couldn't find gstreamer-app-0.10 pkg-config package or it's dependencies, did you run the latest install_dependencies.sh?. Stop.
there has been a problem compiling Debug OF library
please report this problem in the forums

I had the same issue. After some digging, I found that the libunwind-dev package was not installed (I had libunwind-18-dev installed but it does not count -- for gstreamer we need exactly libunwind-dev package).

So sudo apt install libunwind-dev had solved my issue.

btw: if gstreamer and all its dependencies are installed then the build script will find gstreamer-app-1.0 not gstreamer-app-0.10. 0.10 is a fallback in case of missing pkg-config package for gstreamer.

[ofTheo]

@valexey @sloev - thanks for reporting this.
I'll work on getting a fix in for newer ubuntu that doesn't break older installs.

[ofTheo]

I hope this fixes the issue for you @sloev

I changed the install_dependencies script to upgrade libunwind-dev if it's found to latest and if not install libunwind-dev - hopefully that will cover everything.

fyi we're using 24.04 on the CI server, but we had the libunwind-dev fix in the CI script and not in the main install_dependencies so hoping that all works now.