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[gaim-migrate @ 14317] I strongly suspect CruiseControl is going to yell at me for this. A voice chat API, GUI + mediastreamer. This is what I'm using for Google Talk. This doesn't actually do anything at all. There's no code in the Jabber plugin yet to use this API (although it Works For Me). All it will do is compile and link. If you're lucky. To build this, you should install oRTP from Linphone, Speex and iLBC (also from linphone, I believe). To not build this, ./configure --disable-vv. Most of the configure.ac and Makefile.am hackery was lifted right out of Linphone with a few modifications. It seems to work if you have everything installed or if you --disable-vv. I haven't really tested not having everything installed and not --disabling-vv. It's kinda funky to include all of mediastreamer in the source tree like this, but linphone doesn't build it as a separate library. I'll probably wind up writing them a patch to build it as a .so so we can link it dynamically instead. This code certainly isn't finished. It'll adapt as I progress on the Google code, but it's certainly of more use here in CVS than in my personal tree. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

This file describes how to compile and run gaim with dbus support.
Hopefully, most of the steps from point 3 will soon be automated.


1. Make sure you have the latest version (0.34) of the dbus library
   installed, including glib bindings.  

   http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus


2. Compile gaim

   ./configure --enable-dbus
   make
   make install


3. Configure your dbus instalation for gaim

   A. Find your dbus session configuration file, usually

      /etc/dbus-1/session.conf

   B. In that file, find the <servicedir> section.  This section
      contains the directory that stores files describing services,
      usually

      /usr/share/dbus-1/services

   C. Copy src/dbus-gaim.service to that directory

   D. Edit the dbus-gaim.service file you've just copied, and replace
      the path in the "Exec=" line with the path to your gaim
      executable.


4. Start Session DBUS if you haven't done it already

   eval `dbus-launch --session`
   export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID

   These commands will set the two above shell variables.  These
   variables must be set before running any dbus-aware programs.

Start gaim as usual.  To communicate with it, use "gaim-send".  When
you execute gaim-send, the dbus system will automatically start a gaim
process if one is not running already.