pidgin

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

• /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