Syntax error near unexpected token `gtksink,' while attempting to develop on Windows

[robinhood2014]

This may be a duplicate of issue 629, but I only just encountered the error now.

I'm unable to build corebird on Windows 10 through MSYS. I've installed all the necessary dependencies, including gstreamer, but the ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr command I issue in MSYS generates the following error:

./configure: line 13281: syntax error near unexpected token 'gtksink,'
./configure: line 13281: ' GST_ELEMENT_CHECK(gtksink, 1.0, , )'

I tried running ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gst-check (because by this time the necessary "configure" app was there), but the extra parameter had no effect whatsoever; the error remains. I then checked out IBBoard's patch, but it no longer exists.

Is it possible to fix this problem for compiling on Windows?

[baedert]

Don't you have to pass --disable-gst-check to autogen.sh again so a different configure script gets generated?

[robinhood2014]

That seems to have passed the configure stage. But now, on the make stage, I get another error:
C:\msys64\mingw64\bin\msgfmt.exe: cannot locate ITS rules for org.baedert.corebird.appdata.xml.in
make[3]: *** [Makefile:835: org.baedert.corebird.appdata.xml] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/donni/corebird/data'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:553: all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/donni/corebird/data'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:451: all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/donni/corebird'
make: *** [Makefile:383: all] Error 2

[baedert]

You will have to figure out all of this yourself, I have never compiled Corebird on windows and don't know of anyone else who has.

[Vistaus]

I currently also experience this issue while compiling the latest git master on Solus (Linux).
Disabling the gst check didn't help, but I don't want to disable it anyway.

[baedert]

I removed the gtksink check in the cb-1.7 branch since it breaks apparently and doesn't exist in the master branch (i.e. meson build) anyway.