NVIDIA VPI GStreamer Plug-in - Getting Started - Building the NVIDIA VPI GStreamer Plug-in
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Dependencies
The GstVPI plugin has the following dependencies:
Meson
The GstVPI plugin makes use of the Meson build system. To build correctly this plugin you need to use the latest version of Meson:
First, make sure python dependencies and ninja are installed
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools python3-wheel ninja-build
Then, use pip3 install Meson directly from its repository.
sudo -H pip3 install git+https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson.git
Hotdoc
The GstVPI plugin makes use of the Hotdoc documentation. In order to install it you need to follow the next steps:
First, install the Hotdoc dependencies:
sudo apt install python3-dev libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev cmake libyaml-dev libclang-dev llvm-dev libglib2.0-dev libjson-glib-dev flex
Then, install their latest release version with:
python3 -m pip install hotdoc
Building the project
The GstVPI plugin must be built natively on the hardware. On its simplest form run:
meson build --prefix /usr/
ninja -C build
ninja -C build test
sudo ninja -C build install
For additional customization, you may refer to the following table of options:
Configure Option | Description |
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-Dexamples=disabled | Skip examples compilation |
-Dtests=disabled | Skip tests compilation |
-Ddoc=disabled | Skip documentation generation |
--prefix /usr | Set the installation path of the library |
Table 1. GstVPI configuration options (Meson)