How to Compile Pidgin with Plugins from Source in Intrepid Ibex

[kevdog]

The voice and video support are experimental. I would ask questions specifically on #pidgin IRC. If however you find an answer I would be very interested in your solution. I am not involved in pidgin development. Do you have a link to another page that provides tenative instructions? I would be happy to try myself.

[rtom]

I used the following descriptions:
GSoC2008
Monotone for Pidgin
Install Pidgin from Source

If you gou through my earlier post, you can save a lot of time by installing the dev packages I listed there.

Any feedback would be appreciated.

[kevdog]

Voice and video seems to refer to developmental source code. If you could tell me where to obtain this source code I would be greatful.

[kevdog]

How do I add that debian repository?

[kevdog]

Ok this Ive successfully compiled the source. Here is how I did it: (Thanks for the instructions by the way -- very helpful. I using 8.10 on my system)

Did the following commands:

sudo apt-get install build-essential dh-make
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev

I actually temporarily added the jaunty universe repository to my /etc/apt/sources.list and removed intrepid's. I did a
sudo aptitude update

Then ran the following commands:

sudo apt-get install libgstfarsight0.10-0 libgstfarsight0.10-dev gstreamer0.10-plugins-farsight

I then removed the jaunty repository, and added back in Intrepid's, and re-ran the update command.


The following instructions also worked, however I didn't install monotome-viz

apt-get install monotone monotone-viz

then:

DATABASE=/home/user/monotone_databases/pidgin.mtn
WORKINGDIR=/home/user/code/pidgin-mtn
cd $(dirname $DATABASE)
wget http://developer.pidgin.im/static/pidgin.mtn.bz2
bzip2 -d pidgin.mtn.bz2
mtn -d $DATABASE pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im "im.pidgin.*"

I got an error message so:

mtn -d $DATABASE db migrate

then again:

mtn -d $DATABASE pull --set-default mtn.pidgin.im "im.pidgin.*"
mtn -d $DATABASE co -b im.pidgin.pidgin.vv $WORKINGDIR

During the configure process I did not get any errors about missing any dependencies. Possibly this is because I had compiled pidgin before and had the library install. I would suggest the following:

sudo apt-get build dep pidgin

sudo apt-get install autogen libtool intltool libgtk2.0-dev  libgtkspell-dev libstartup-notification0-dev libmeanwhile-dev libavahi-glib-dev libdbus-1-dev libperl-dev libssl-dev libgnutls-dev tcl8.5-dev libdbus-1-dev tk8.5-dev libxss-dev

I didn't need to do the following -- Again I think because I had the correct libraries installed. A quick perusal of the config.log located in the top pidgin directory should tell you why you needed to do this:

sudo sh ./autogen.sh --disable-dbus --disable-tk

I also got the following warnings listed below! I have no idea how to rectify, however they were just warnings!!

Warning during configuring:

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

I didn't get the following when using the make command:

Error when "sudo make":

gtkmain.c:314: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pidgin_medias_init’
make[3]: *** [gtkmain.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/code/pidgin-mtn/pidgin'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/code/pidgin-mtn/pidgin'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/tom/code/pidgin-mtn'
make: *** [all] Error 2

[rtom]

sudo apt-get build dep pidgin

Thanx for your feedback, using this I could also run the configure script without disable d-bus and tk support. However, at the end I receive

Build with voice and video.... no

which should be yes...

Update: I downloaded farsight2 and compiled it from source, so now I have the configure script with voice and video ... yes!

Update2: make and make install was successful, but when I try to run pidgin I got an error message:
"pidgin: symbol lookup error: pidgin: undefined symbol: purple_media_manager_get"

Update3: I upgraded all gstreamer- packages from the jaunty repo (thanx for the hint kevdog!) and recompiled. SUCCEED! Now I have Pidgin working with webcam (using Linux4Video2), need to test audio.

[Jackelope King]

I followed your instructions for compiling the Pidgin Facebook chat from source (in addition to trying it from repositories and via the .deb file) to no avail. When I go to "Manage Accounts" the dropbox simply does not have Facebook Chat as an option for creating an account. I had this working a few weeks ago for the space of a few hours before Pidgin crashed and Facebook Chat refused to work again. I've since reinstalled facebook chat numerous times (including by your method above) to no avail.

[kevdog]

rtom

Will your pidgin vv install with with gchat?

[rtom]

I gave up trying pidgin vv from source, I compiled it twice and both times the system collapsed after a while, and I couldn't recover (in recovery mode I uninstalled pidgin but the gdm not started at all).
So I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 and stay on Pidgin delivered with the distro

[kevdog]

Im not sure what you mean collapsed, but I'm sorry to hear about your ordeal. My vv version is running ok, but I can't test with gchat