Re: [gnome-love] totem plugin development dependencies

[Adam Dingle <adam yorba org>]

Richard,

Totem does not allow you to build plugins outside of its source tree easily, since 'make install' does not install header files such as totem.h and totem-plugin.h.  So I think the easiest path forward will be for you to first build Totem as you suggested.  You can then add your new plugin to the src/plugins directory in the Totem source tree and rebuild.

Building Totem from git/master on Ubuntu 10.04 (or even Ubuntu 10.10) is not so easy, because the git/master version depends on newer versions of many GNOME libraries including GTK 3.0.  I'd suggest that you simply build Totem 2.30 (the version included in Ubuntu 10.04) from source, which is very easy.  You can then develop your plugin in the Totem 2.30 source tree.  To do this, download the Totem source from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/totem/2.30/ .  You could try either 2.30.0 (the specific version in Ubuntu 10.04) or 2.30.2 (which will probably also work).  Then simply do this:

% sudo apt-get build-dep totem
% cd totem-2.32.0
% make
% sudo make install

adam

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 4:40 AM, Richard Henwood <rjhenwood yahoo co uk> wrote:

Hi All,

I was thinking about developing a plugin for totem to assist with playing Project Gutenburg audio books.
A quick search suggests such a thing does not exist.

so, I figured I'd get an python example and go from there...

however, it looks like compiling a totem plugin requires a build of Totem?

And when I tried to build Totem from git/master, I got
./configure: line 4813: syntax error near unexpected token `0.6.7'
./configure: line 4813: `GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK(0.6.7)'

That made me think I needed a more recent version of Gnome (I've got what ever came with Ubuntu 10.4).

Can you confirm (or hopefully refute) that in order to develop a python or c plugin for Totem, I must have a recent Gnome and Totem built?

cheers,
Richard




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