Installation and setup¶

The Fluendo SDK is available for various operating systems and packaging flavors.

Linux¶

APT-based distributions¶

To install using the command line interface, use:

sudo apt install ./fluendo-sdk_x.x.x.x_arch.deb

or

sudo dpkg -i  ./fluendo-sdk_x.x.x.x_arch.deb && apt-get install -f

RPM-based distributions¶

To install using the command line interface, use:

sudo sudo rpm –i fluendo-sdk_x.x.x.x_arch.rpm

or

sudo yum localinstall fluendo-sdk_x.x.x.x_arch.rpm

Environment¶

The Fluendo SDK is installed at /opt/fluendo-sdk.

In order to build yourself the examples and tutorials, you also need:

meson build system (version >=0.52)
ninja build system
C toolchain: gcc or clang

This software is most likely included with your Linux distribution. Finally, you can test that everything is correct by building an example:

mkdir test && cd test
meson /opt/fluendo-sdk/share/examples/fluendo-sdk/MediaPlayer/
ninja
./MediaPlayer S ohttp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/blender/demo/movies/ToS/tears_of_steel_720p.mov q p

Windows¶

To install, double click on the MSI package and follow the instructions:

Environment¶

The Fluendo SDK is installed by default at C:\fluendo-sdk\<version>\<x86/x86_64>. During the installation, the following environment variables are set:

FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86 if you have installed the 32 bits version of the Fluendo SDK, or
FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86_64 if you have installed the 64 bits version of the Fluendo SDK.

Attention

The installer does not add the runtime DLL path. If you want to add it for your development environment, it is located at FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86_64\bin (64bit) or FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86\bin (32bit).

For example:

PATH = %FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86_64%;%PATH%

To build yourself examples and tutorials, you also need:

meson build system (version >=0.52)
ninja build system
C toolchain: MinGW or Visual Studio
Visual Studio for C# samples

You can install both directly from Python’s pip :

python3 -m pip install meson ninja

Build samples with Microsoft Visual Studio¶

Open a x86 Native Tools Command Prompt or x64 Native Tools Command Prompt depending if you have installed the 32 bits or 64 bits version of the Fluendo SDK. Then go to the samples folder C:\fluendo-sdk\<version>\<x86/x86_64>\share\samples and enter:

meson build
ninja -C build

Alternatively, you can create a Visual Studio project using:

meson build --backend=vs

This creates a VisualStudio project and solution within the build folder.

To debug or run the samples using VisualStudio auto-generated project, you need to add the Fluendo SDK runtime path to your project:

Open project properties window in VisualStudio (Alt+Enter)
Select Debug entry in the left pane
In Environment property, add PATH variable as PATH=$(FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86)\bin or PATH=$(FLUENDO_SDK_ROOT_X86_64)\bin, depending if you are configuring a 32 bits or 64 bits project

Create C applications with Microsoft Visual Studio¶

You can use <installation_directory>\common\fluendo-plugins-sdk.props as an easy way of setting up your VisualStudio project.

To learn how to include this file into your project, please read Microsoft’s instructions here.