On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Bogdan Ciobanu <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Germán Póo-Caamaño
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 10:00 +0300, Bogdan Ciobanu wrote:
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am new to GNOME world and I am currently trying to contribute to
> gnome-control-center. The problem is that I need to use some
libraries that
> are not included anywhere else in the project and I don't know how
where
> and how to include them in configure file and Makefile, as I have
never
> worked with such a big program.
>
> Can anyone explain me a little the process I should follow to add
those
> libraries or some resources that might help me? Any help is
appreciated!
You might want to check:
https://wiki.gnome.org/HowDoI/Jhbuild
I think that I didn't explain very well my situation. It isn't a
jhbuild issue. I have already built successfully the module and it's
working, but what I want to create needs 2 more libraries, librest
and libgoa and I don't know what should I change in configure or in
makefile so I can include those libraries and to be linked correctly.
I am currently getting this error "fatal error: goa/goa.h: No such
file or directory" because, the compiler doesn't know where to look
for those libraries until I don't specify it in the Makefile, I
suppose.
Bogdan,
Like most GNOME programs, gnome-control-center uses GNU Autoconf and
Automake to generate its configure script and makefiles. So you don't
want to edit 'configure' or 'makefile' directly. Instead, you want to
edit 'configure.ac' (the input to Autoconf) and/or Makefile.am (the
input to Automake). The diagram on this Wikipedia page shows how these
programs and files interact:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoconf
Note that some gnome-control-center panels already use libgoa, as you
can see if you search for 'goa' in configure.ac in git master.
Probably you need to do the following:
1. Add a REST_REQUIRED_VERSION definition to configure.ac indicating
the minimum version of librest that you require.
2. Update the PKG_CHECK_MODULES line in configure.ac for the panel
you're developing so that it mentions both librest and libgoa.
That might be all. The line PKG_CHECK_MODULES(COLOR_PANEL, ...), for
example, defines variables COLOR_PANEL_CFLAGS and COLOR_PANEL_LIBS
which are then referenced in panels/color/Makefile.am. You probably
won't need to change the Makefile.am for your panel since it refers to
these _CFLAGS and _LIBS variables already.
Hope this helps -
adam
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