Wiki instructions outdated or omitting steps
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I am on Solus Linux, which has a native version of Strawberry. To link Spotify, the app directs me to this wiki page: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Installing_GStreamer_Spotify_plugin
It is exactly these following steps:
Get the sourcegit clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-rs.git cd gst-plugins-rsBuild and install:
meson setup --buildtype=release --default-library=shared --wrap-mode=nodownload --auto-features=disabled -Dspotify=enabled build cd build ninja sudo cp libgstspotify.so /usr/lib64/gstreamer-1.0/Very simple and straightforward.
Except that it's not. It all goes wrong at the Meson step. Firstly, it required me to get cargo-c. Trying to install cargo-c required libssl-dev, which is not on Solus, and pkg-config, which is not on Solus. After lots of looking, I found the equivalents to install here: pkgconf, and system.devel (which required a -c flag when installing, as well). Given that it has a native Solus version, the instructions should account for dependency issues.Anyway, after resolving that, I can
cargo install cargo-c, and then Meson runs properly. That is, without crashing. Instead, it tells meRun-time dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: NO (tried pkg-config and cmake). That's weird since, putting aside my not having cargo-c already, it's technically just two steps in. I got source from the repo. Went in. Ran the build command. And it's missing. Isn't it one of the very things the repo is supposed to supply? That's not an external dependency, but an internal one, right? What's going on here? -
I'm wondering now whether I should have made a post instead just about the error
Run-time dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: NO (tried pkg-config and cmake). Given that that's the actual issue that's currently still relevant. Can someone confirm that gstreamer-1.0 is supposed to be included ingst-plugins-rs.gitand that it shouldn't be missing after following the plugin instruction steps, or otherwise clarify where I've made a mistake following the wiki instructions?