meson error if imx-codec is not installed (branch v2)

[DerDakon]

Dependency libfslaudiocodec found: NO
Message: Installed fslaudiocodec library not found, or user disabled uniaudiodec element compilation - uniaudio decoder will not be built

ext/audio/meson.build:22:0: ERROR:  Search directory  is not an absolute path.

If I install imx-codec it works fine, but the error message is not helpful in location what is actually wrong.

[dv1]

The meson recipe was changed, and might solve this issue by now. If you can, please try again. Reopen the issue if there is still an error.

[DerDakon]

Issue is still there:

Run-time dependency libfslaudiocodec found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Message: Installed fslaudiocodec library not found, or user disabled uniaudiodec element compilation - uniaudio decoder will not be built

../gstreamer-imx-2.0.0/ext/audio/meson.build:24:0: ERROR: Search directory . is not an absolute path.

If I install it the messages are:

Run-time dependency libfslaudiocodec found: YES 4.3.5
Message: Found installed fslaudiocodec library - uniaudio decoder will be built
Message: imx audio codec path: "/usr/lib/imx-mm/audio-codec"
Library _mp3_enc_arm12_elinux found: YES
Message: Found installed _mp3_enc_arm12_elinux library - mp3 encoder will be built

[dv1]

What are you using for (cross-)compilation? Yocto? Buildroot? Or are you building directly on the device?

[DerDakon]

Our custom cross build environment e2factory with hand-written build script.

For me it seems like the error comes from whatever is used to get the output for "Message: imx audio codec path:".

[dv1]

Then this is something specific to the meson configuration. Do you use any particular meson cross compilation configuration? I am talking about https://mesonbuild.com/Cross-compilation.html#page-description

[DerDakon]

This is my cross-config, using meson 0.56.2: meson-cross-file.txt

[Talkless]

I too got ERROR: Search directory . is not an absolute path. when building on the device:

# meson ..
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
The Meson build system
Version: 0.56.2
Source dir: /root/code/gstreamer-imx/gstreamer-imx.git
Build dir: /root/code/gstreamer-imx/gstreamer-imx.git/build
Build type: native build
Project name: gstreamer-imx
Project version: 2.0.0
Using 'CFLAGS' from environment with value: '-I/root/opt/aarch64-poky-linux/usr/include'
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 10.2.1 "cc (Debian 10.2.1-6) 10.2.1 20210110")
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.35.2
Using 'CFLAGS' from environment with value: '-I/root/opt/aarch64-poky-linux/usr/include'
Host machine cpu family: aarch64
Host machine cpu: aarch64
Message: Setting up build configuration for gstreamer-imx version 2.0.0
Library dl found: YES
Library m found: YES
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency libimxdmabuffer found: YES 1.0.1
Message: libimxdmabuffer supports ION allocation - enabling ION GstAllocator
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency gstreamer-1.0 found: YES 1.18.4
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency gstreamer-base-1.0 found: YES 1.18.4
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency gstreamer-allocators-1.0 found: YES 1.18.4
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency gstreamer-audio-1.0 found: YES 1.18.4
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency gstreamer-video-1.0 found: YES 1.18.4
Message: found gstaudio library - building audio plugins
Message: found gstvideo library - building video plugins
Has header "g2d.h" : YES 
Library g2d found: NO
Message: imx2d G2D backend disabled due to missing G2D dependency
Check usable header "linux/ipu.h" : NO 
Check usable header "imx/linux/ipu.h" : YES 
Message: imx2d IPU backend enabled
Check usable header "linux/pxp_device.h" : NO 
Check usable header "imx/linux/pxp_device.h" : NO 
Message: imx2d PxP backend disabled due to missing PxP dependency
Using 'PKG_CONFIG_PATH' from environment with value: '/root/opt/nxp/lib/pkgconfig/'
Run-time dependency libimxvpuapi2 found: YES 2.2.0
Message: Found installed imxvpuapi library - VPU elements will be built
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.18.4)
Run-time dependency libfslaudiocodec found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Message: Installed fslaudiocodec library not found, or user disabled uniaudiodec element compilation - uniaudio decoder will not be built

../ext/audio/meson.build:24:0: ERROR: Search directory . is not an absolute path.

[Talkless]

Workaround was to comment-out this line:

#subdir('ext/audio')