Re: How to begin contributing to XWidgets for GSoC

[joakim@verona.se]

Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
> ?

Another thing, the public repositories are lagging a bit behind my
private repos. I will attempt to push the latest code this week.



> Best,

-- 
Joakim Verona