[sylpheed:36119] Re: Configuring dev environment

[Antonio Ospite]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 22:32:56 +0200
Marco Bresciani <marcobresciani_1974 at libero.it> wrote:

> Hi all,

Hi Marco,

>    as I wrote before, I thought about starting a new plugin for Sylpheed, to 
> support WWWJDic in a way something similar to rikaichan plugin for Firefox (or 
> rikaikun for Chrome).
> 
> Anyway: I'm completely newbie with respect to Linux programming and I think I 
> need a bit of help to configure the whole thing.
>    I've installed gcc, g++ and all related things (build-essentials, ...) 
> together with GTK+ 2.0.
> 
> I'm working on a Trisquel GNU/Linux "Mini" (LXDE) environment and I've also 
> installed Anjuta IDE and DevHelp packages and so on.
>

Trisquel is Debian based so in order to get all the stuff needed to
build sylpheed from source you can just use:

	sudo apt-get build-dep sylpheed

> Than, I've proceeded by installing all Sylpheed-related packages. Let me list 
> them: sylph-searcher, sylpheed, sylpheed-doc, sylpeed-i18n and 
> sylpheed-plugins. Then I've also installed libsylph-dev and libsylph1.
>    Looking at the plugin specifications I was searching for the plugin/test 
> folder to try the building procedure of the demo/test plugin.
>    But there was nothing. Specifically, in the sylpheed-plugins package I have 
> these files (listed by synaptic):
> 
> /usr/lib/sylpheed/plugins/attachment_tool.so
> 
> but nothing more in the plugins folder and in all the files associated to the 
> above packages there is no test.c or demo.c or whatever.
>

To get the plugin examples you need to get the source code, the
deb packages only provide the compiled binaries.

In order to get the source of a deb package you can use something like:

	sudo apt-get source sylpheed

But maybe it's better if you use the upstream source repository like
explained in http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/svn.html; there is a
page about plugins too http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/plugin.html

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

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