OSX Installation error

[smullins7]

Hello, I'm trying to install this plugin for use with Adium on Mountain Lion. I've cloned the latest and run "make" But I'm getting the following error message:

Package purple was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `purple.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'purple' found
CC campfire.o
In file included from campfire.c:3:
campfire.h:5:24: error: glib/gi18n.h: No such file or directory

There are a number of additional errors printed, but they are likely due to the top error. Is there a dependency I need to install on OSX?

[jrfoell]

I had assumed that Adium simply used the libpurple protocols as-is, but looking at the Adium IRC code (as an example) there's an "adapter" written to use the libpurple IRC implementation. This may be worth asking an Adium developer and / or digging in on your own if you feel comfortable.

I did find this: http://rampion.blogspot.com/2008/09/howto-wrap-libpurple-plugin-for-adium.html

I do not have access to a Mac / OSX / XCode to try any of these things out, but any help is welcome!

[msteinert]

To compile you will need the libpurple development package and all of it's dependencies. If you already have them installed then you could try setting PKG_CONFIG_PATH to point to the directory containing purple.pc, e.g.

$ ls /usr/lib/pkgconfig/purple.pc
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/purple.pc
$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig

If that doesn't work and you really do have all of the necessary header files & libraries installed, you could try modifying the makefile. You'll want to replace all of the occurrences of $(shell pkg-config ...) with the appropriate values.

Having said all that, I don't have a Mac and I've never tested the plugin with Adium. I'd be curious to know if you get it to work!

As a side note, would this package be easier to install on Mac (and in general) if it had an Autotools configure script?

[msteinert]

I have an update on this issue (I got a Macbook for work recently). I was able to compile the plugin using Homebrew to install the dependencies. IIRC I did something like this to compile it:

$ brew install pkg-config libpurple
$ cd campfire-libpurple && make

You also need to make sure you have a compiler etc. I haven't figured out how to get the plugin to work with Adium, hopefully that will come next!

[jrfoell]

Awesome! Keep us updated on the progress you're able to make.

[jfoell]

@smullins7 ,
Any progress or news?

[smullins7]

@jfoell I tried to get it working on my '12 MBP but to no avail. I gave up and have just been using campfire directly through the browser.