Re: How to begin contributing to XWidgets for GSoC

[Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com>]

Xue Fuqiao <xfq@gnu.org> writes:

> joakim@verona.se writes:
>> I'm the maintainer of the branch.
>>
>> The current readme lives here:
>> http://www.verona.se/projects/xwidget-emacs.html
>>
>> I think the best approach is to just start building and testing on your
>> plattform.
>>
>> I use Fedora 20, but the code has been reported to work on many other
>> GNU/Linux projects.
>>
>> I think this years focus should be on getting merged to the Emacs trunk
>> when it opens again.
>
> I'm also interested in this project.  I just checked out the `xwidget'
> branch and tried to build it.  But:
>
> xwidget.c:95:26: fatal error: girepository.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <girepository.h>
>                           ^
> compilation terminated.
> make[2]: *** [xwidget.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/xfq/emacs-repo/main/xwidget/src'
> make[1]: *** [src] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/xfq/emacs-repo/main/xwidget'
> make: *** [bootstrap] Error 2
>
> The same error occured after installing the following packages in Ubuntu
> repo:
>
> * gobject-introspection
> * libgirepository-1.0-1
> * libgirepository1.0-dev
> * gir1.2-freedesktop
>
> Any ideas?

That's weird, the file should be provided by the package
libgirepository1.0-dev. Does the file appear in:
$ dpkg -L libgirepository1.0-dev | grep girepository.h
?

Best,
-- 
Daimrod/Greg