gstreamer-build-nox.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -ex

LXC_IMAGE=images:debian/11/cloud/armhf # base image for LXC container
USER=debian # exsting user with sudo inside the container

CONTAINER=gstreamer # the name of the container

[ -n "$1" ] && CONTAINER=$1 # can be set from the command line

# Create a log file of the build as well as displaying the build on the tty as it runs
exec > >(tee build_gstreamer.log)
exec 2>&1

# Create container
lxc init $LXC_IMAGE $CONTAINER
# Add paths from the host
lxc config device add $CONTAINER vc disk source=/opt/vc path=opt/vc # Broadcom EGL, GLESv2 libraries
lxc config device add $CONTAINER vchiq unix-char source=/dev/vchiq path=/dev/vchiq gid=44 # VideoCore
[ -e "/dev/video0" ] && lxc config device add $CONTAINER video0 unix-char source=/dev/video0 path=/dev/video0 gid=44 # usb camera
lxc snapshot $CONTAINER config

# Start containe and wait until it boots and the user is created
lxc start $CONTAINER
lxc exec $CONTAINER -- /bin/bash -c "while ! (id -u $USER 2> /dev/null); do sleep 1; done"

# Remaining commands are executed inside the container by the local user
lxc exec $CONTAINER -- sudo --login --user $USER /bin/bash <<'EOF'
set -ex

VERSION="1.18" # gstreamer version (branch or release)

# Make sure linkers find the libraries
sudo sh -c 'echo "/opt/vc/lib" > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/00-vmcs.conf'

# Update and Upgrade the Pi, otherwise the build may fail due to inconsistencies
grep -q BCM2 /proc/cpuinfo && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

# Remove old versions of dependencies; these will be build from soures
# use dpkg since apt-get remove fail if the package is not installed
sudo dpkg --remove libnice-dev libsrtp2-dev libusrsctp-dev meson libgstreamer1.0
sudo apt autoremove -y

# Install dependencies
sudo apt-get install -y meson ninja-build wget git pkgconf checkinstall \
                    libegl1-mesa-dev libgbm-dev libgles2-mesa-dev \
                    libssl-dev libavfilter-dev libglib2.0-dev flex bison libopus-dev libvisual-0.4-dev \
                    libvorbis-dev libjpeg-dev libdv4-dev libsoup2.4-dev libpulse-dev libdrm-dev \
                    libopenjp2-7-dev libx264-dev libjson-glib-dev \
                    libtheora-dev libflac-dev libwavpack-dev liba52-0.7.4-dev libmp3lame-dev \
                    libmpeg2-4-dev libx264-dev libx265-dev libwebrtc-audio-processing-dev libsrtp2-dev libusrsctp-dev

# gstreamer
PACKAGE=gstreamer-1.0
wget https://github.com/GStreamer/gst-build/archive/$VERSION.tar.gz -O gst-build-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar xvf gst-build-$VERSION.tar.gz
cd gst-build-$VERSION
# include the renamed egl and glesv2 libraries
LIBDIR=$(pwd)/lib
mkdir -p $LIBDIR/pkconfig
ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbrcmEGL.so $LIBDIR/libEGL.so
ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so $LIBDIR/libGLESv2.so
ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/pkgconfig/brcmegl.pc $LIBDIR/pkconfig/egl.pc
ln -fs /opt/vc/lib/pkgconfig/brcmglesv2.pc $LIBDIR/pkconfig/glesv2.pc
PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/opt/vc/lib/pkgconfig:$LIBDIR/pkconfig" meson --prefix=/usr/ build \
  -D gst-plugins-base:gl_api=gles2 \
  -D gst-plugins-base:gl_platform=egl \
  -D gst-plugins-base:gl_winsys=dispmanx \
  -D gst-plugins-base:gles2_module_name=/opt/vc/lib/libbrcmGLESv2.so \
  -D gst-plugins-base:egl_module_name=/opt/vc/lib/libbrcmEGL.so \
  -D bad=enabled \
  -D gst-plugins-bad:webrtc=enabled -D gst-plugins-bad:webrtcdsp=enabled \
  -D omx=enabled -D gst-omx:header_path=/opt/vc/include/IL -D gst-omx:target=rpi \
  -D introspection=disabled -D examples=disabled
ninja -j 3 -C build
echo $PACKAGE > description-pak
sudo checkinstall -y --fstrans=no ninja -C build install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..

EOF

lxc snapshot $CONTAINER gstreamer

I'm having this error on a Raspbian 10 (buster), when installing gst-plugins-bad

/usr/bin/ld: ../../../gst-libs/gst/video/.libs/libgstvideo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `gst_aggregator_simple_get_next_time'
/usr/bin/ld: ../../../gst-libs/gst/video/.libs/libgstvideo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `gst_base_sink_set_processing_deadline'