The Cast Starboard API is a shared library which contains the portion of Starboard required to run Cast.
As of Starboard 15, there are public methods required for Cast that are not already exposed by libstarboard.so. As a result, the dedicated header cast_starboard_api.h is omitted from this release, though it may return in the future.
Cast still requires additional behavior be implemented behind the existing Starboard APIs. Reference the Cast TV Integration Guide for details.
The cast_starboard_api/samples/ directory contains the reference target cast_starboard_api which can be built when both build_with_separate_cobalt_toolchain=true and use_contrib_cast=true are specified. To generate the target:
gn gen out/linux-x64x11_devel --args="target_platform=\"linux-x64x11\" build_with_separate_cobalt_toolchain=true use_contrib_cast=true build_type=\"devel\""
To build the target:
ninja -C out/linux-x64x11_devel/ cast_starboard_api
Tests for Cast-specific behaviors are not currently included in NPLB or YTS.
A limited test suite, cast_starboard_api_test, is provided to ensure the standalone library can be initialized and a window surface can be created in the format required by Cast. To build the test suite:
ninja -C out/linux-x64x11_devel/ cast_starboard_api_test
To run the test suite:
./out/linux-x64x11_devel/cast_starboard_api_test_loader
build_type=\"devel\", some systems may SB_DCHECK in NetworkNotifier.