Unit tests: How to access private members in C++

In order to write unit tests sometimes one needs to access private class members or methods.

Building GStreamer-1.0-SDK for Android MIPS

GStreamer is a nice SDK with which you can create multimedia applications for a multitude of systems. My concern is primarily Android with RTSP and video playback.
The SDK is already available for Android for a couple of architectures (arm, armv7a and x86). No MIPS support though.
In this post I'll describe the steps needed to get a GStreamer-1.0 SDK for Android MIPS.