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[noalternative]

I am trying to compile a purple-facebook.pet for pidgin. I have downloaded devx and kernel sources. I have dowloaded the file from github, and downloaded the tar.gz, but whenever I extract, and open a terminal and type ./configure I get.

root# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
root#

I am using instructions from git and here

https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/wiki/Building-on-*NIX
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35507

[Makoto]

Pidgin plugins must be compiled against the Pidgin source. Do you have a compiled version of Pidgin with the source/dev package available/installed? (Preferably the most recent version.)

You can also try contacting the plugin's maintainer directly, or asking on the Support mailing list (Support Info Page)... I'm not sure whether or not it should be asked on the development mailing list, however.

[noalternative]

[Makoto]

If you're installing from Pidgin packages, the DEV package should be enough for compiling against, I believe. It would still be better to compile against the most recent version of Pidgin, however (so things would be less likely to break).

[noalternative]

[technosaurus]

before you did your ./configure , did you change into the correct directory?

Where did you get the tarball - the downloads on github require alternative instructions

[noalternative]

[OscarTalks]

Running ./autogen.sh creates the configure script so you can then run ./configure but usually this only applies if downloading the source from the github trunk.

If you grab a release tarball you will usually find that the ./autogen.sh step has been done so you can go straight to ./configure and in this case mercurial is no longer required according to the documentation.
Releases are here, latest 0.9.3 is only a few days old.
https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/releases

Isn't mercurial in the devx anyway? If not you should be able to grab it from somewhere. I seem to recall compiling a version of it once some time ago. You need to make sure the other dependencies are satisfied including their DEV components (libjson-glib is one that you might need to grab or build but this is straight-forward).

[technosaurus]

IIRC pidgin is one of the worst projects to build anyhow. My past experience with building it was so awful I won't even bother to touch it anymore - too much headache for too little gain.

[Makoto]

I didn't have too much of a problem compiling Pidgin for Puppy 4 until the more recent versions. It's the plugins that gave me headaches.

[noalternative]

I found a version a version of mercurial that works, and installed a dev version of pidgin.

That seemed to clear up alot of things, and autogen and configure commands worked, unfortunately then I got to make. Then I got these errors.

Here is the pastbin of my terminal. I don't understant because if you look at autogen and configure they both clearly found libpurple.

https://pastebin.com/1iXqmwLW
here is the pastbin from config.log
https://pastebin.com/5dJkDkza

any insights?

BTW,I do intend to share this pet when finished.

Also. Would could this be moved to additional software/compiling? I didn't see it tell just a few minutes ago, so I think this is in the wrong subforum.