Re: [Ekiga-list] My first compilation of ekiga: some crucial questions.

[Reimundo Heluani <rheluani gmail com>]

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 22:23 +0200, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> Reimundo Heluani wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 16:16 -0700, Luis Maceira wrote:
> >> 1) How can I have H.264 video codec support? Is it in the ekiga sources
> >>    or based on an external library,like x264(present in many Linux dists).
> >>    I did not see any option to ./configure to support H.264.
> >>
> >> 2) Opal-3.6.4 supports SRTP/ZRTP,is it enough to compile ekiga-3.2.5 with
> >>    Opal-3.6.4(ZRTP enabled) to get support to ZRTP in Ekiga?
> >>
> > 
> > This is right you need to compile OPAL and PTLIB and put their prefix
> > wherever you want, now remember where the .pc is and add that directory
> > to your $PKG_CONFIG_PATH when you're compiling ekiga. .configure will
> > pick OPAL's prefix with pkg-config... 
> > 
> > please someone with more knowledge in this list let me know if this is
> > right or not.... otherwise I'll just build in my home directory to check
> > this.
> 
> I do not know either.  But a solution sure is to rename ptlib.pc and 
> /usr/include/ptlib and see if the compilation works.  The same for opal.

I was right in my previous e-mail, just to check I built opal and ptlib
in my home directory and then passed the right prefix to
PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Ekiga's build wen't fine and the new build is linked
against my user's opal and ptlib libraries.

R.

> 
> There is for opal a configure and/or make option, PTLIBDIR, but I am not 
> sure...
> 
> For ex., for simpleopal from opal I use:
>          $(MAKE) PTLIBDIR=/usr OPALDIR=$(CURDIR) -C samples/simple
> 
> Finally, on opalvoip web site you might find information...
> 
> Sorry for not being precise.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > R.
> > 
> > 
> >> 3) I don't want to use my Opal and ptlib system libraries,I want to put
> >>    specific Opal/ptlib in my home directory but I did ./configure --help
> >>    and I did not see any option to configure(type --with-opal-dir=/...
> >>    --with-ptlib-dir=/... to customise this).Can the configure script
> >>    scan my directories to detect them or only if they are installed
> >>    under /usr/local;/usr/lib etc.?
> 
>