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Compiling and testing Ekiga

Following with my last post, in the project I am collaborating with, we are interested in making VoIP calls using our libraries in the Nokia 770. We are going to explore the possibility of using Ekiga, a VoIP and videconferencing client for GNOME. Furthermore, as I will probably buy a N800 in the next days or weeks, I am getting ready to test videconferencing with Ekiga on the N800 .

My first impressions, it is going to be a little hard to have a fully functional Ekiga on the 770/N800, but so far sounds work, calls work also, and video hardware I think it will work.

Here you may find some screenshots of Ekiga running on the Maemo 2.1 environment.

These are the instructions to compile it. Pay attention to the options passed to the configure scripts, otherwise it will not compile. Follow strictly the order of my instructions to install all the libraries needed by Ekiga.

Login on the scrathbox environment, and select the profile:
- sbox-config -st SDK_PC (or SDK_ARMEL to cross-compile for ARM)
Download LDAP sources
- openldap-2.3.32.tgz
tar zxvf openldap-2.3.32.tgz
cd openldap-2.3.32
./configure –disable-backends –enable-shell
make depend
make
make install
Download Ekiga sources
- ekiga-2.0.3.tar.gz
- opal-2.2.3.tar.gz
- pwlib-1.10.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf pwlib-1.10.2.tar.gz
cd pwlib-1.10.2
./configure && make && make install
cd ..
tar zxvf opal-2.2.3.tar.gz
cd opal-2.2.3
./configure && make && make install
cd ..
tar zxvf ekiga-2.0.3.tar.gz
cd ekiga-2.0.3
./configure –disable-doc –disable-gnome –disable-avahi –disable-sdl –with-pwlib-dir=/usr/local –with-opal-dir=/usr/local
make
make install

Now Ekiga is compiled and installed in the scratchbox. You can test it, by following these instructions:

Launch Xephyr (follow the instructions given in this post if needed)
af-sb-init.sh start
run-standalone.sh ekiga

Ekiga will launch now the configuration wizard. Although it will not be properly working (very big fonts, the virtual keyboard interferes with the windows, etc), I think it could be adapted to work on the 770/N800.