F2F Pidgin Plugin

carried out by Maido Käära

 

Resources

List of papers and links I use for my thesis

 

Links

• http://www.pidgin.im/ – Pidgin home
• http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/CHowTo – How to make a plugin for Pidgin in C
• http://developer.pidgin.im/doxygen/ – Pidgin API Documentation
• http://code.google.com/p/f2fpidgin/ – Google code project for this plugin (only an example of the plugin for now)
• http://www.gtk.org/ – GLib
• irc.freenode.net – #pidgin channel – For Pidgin related help:)

 

Papers

• http://ulno.net/advising?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=KeioMasterThesis.pdf – Keio Kraaner’s Master Thesis on F2F Computing

 

Setting up the environment

You will need:

• F2FCore shared library (libf2fcore.so)
• Libpurple shared library (libpurple.so) (compile from pidgin source)
• Python 2.5 shared library (libpython2.5.so)
• GLib shared library (libglib.so)
• IDE of your choice
• Plugin file(s) from googlecode project

To make a working plugin you will need to compile the file(s) from googlecode project to a shared library (libf2fplugin.so) and link it to the libraries. Then copy it to ~/.purple/plugins and run Pidgin IM.

OR

Checkout the project from Googlecode with eclipse and configure paths (Eclipse project also has a builder that automatically copies the library to ~/.purple/plugins)

 

Schedule, Deadlines

• 12/2009 Research plugin development for pidgin
• 12/2009 – 02/2009 Develop the plugin
• 02/2009 Write thesis, fix bugs
• 05/2009 Submission