Re: [gupnp] difficulties building gupnp and friends

[Jussi Kukkonen <jku linux intel com>]

Kim Lester wrote:
> Issue 1
> The build and install order is neither obvious nor simple IMHO.
> I could not find any How-do-I-get-started install notes. It would be 
> invaluable to have some lines saying something like:
> a) git clone the following gssdp gupnp .....
> b) make and install in the following order due to deps......
>      b1) for each one run autogen.sh the first time.... (we're not all 
> automake experts)

I guess autogen.sh could be mentioned somewhere, although I really 
thought that was by far the most common bootstrap method...

Documenting deps is a double edged sword: stale docs are far worse than 
no docs when the actual code is this simple (see configure.ac):

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(LIBGUPNP, glib-2.0 >= 2.18 \
                            gobject-2.0 >= 2.18 \
                            gmodule-2.0 \
                            gssdp-1.0 >= 0.7 \
                            libsoup-2.4 >= 2.4.1 \
                            libxml-2.0 \
                            uuid)

It really can't get much simpler.


On a related note: the gssdp requirement should actually be 0.7.1 
because of GSSDP_ERROR_NO_IP_ADDRESS. This is a bug in GUPnP.

> Issue 2
> Some comments I've seen state gupnp only needs a few of libs (eg glib, 
> xml2, soap) , well debian seems to think it needs a lot more and when I 
> build the tarballs I seem to need others including libconic etc...
> Could someone please identify all the deps, preferably in order (partly 
> just so I can built it easily)

The debian package may of course enable any configure flags they want, 
but the hard dependencies are listed above...

> It's not just a matter of getting it built but also understanding just 
> what the final app will depend on. In my case I'm looking at a headless 
> system so naturally I don't want to drag in half of gnome and dozens of 
> libs if possible.

GSSDP+GUPNP depend on exactly 6 libraries and 0.0% of GNOME.

Building from git does have some extra requirements (at least gtk-doc).

If you want to enable/disable things at compile time, please see 
"./configure --help".

> Issue 3
> I still can't get it built from git head and the problems are in 
> configure/deps on a clean install of ubuntu 9.10

 [clip]

The gtk-doc errors seem really weird... Maybe reinstall gtk-doc-tools?

> 3c) And no doubt more things after the above are addressed.

The gupnp libs _really_ shouldn't be difficult to build, I'm sure you've 
just ran into a weird edge case that will get resolved. I'd be very 
surprised if they contained huge build problems as you seem to imply.


- Jussi
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