Re: Making an xmms plugin

On 10/17/06, Sabarish R <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> Hi all,
>
> Iam a new-bie to linux , xmms and all that stuff . So my apologies if the
> following sounds stupid.
>
> I'm tring to write my first xmms plugin.
>
> I followed this tutorial
> http://www.xmms.org/docs/vis-plugin.html to create a
> Visualization plugin . But I got the following error when I executed the
> command autoconf.
>
> (I have the main.c, configure.in and Makefile.am files in the working
> directory)
>
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Do you have the appropriate development libraries installed?
(xmms-dev, etc..) the

As for the "required file '<blah>' not found" stuff I believe he
mentions it somewhere in the tutorial, that's what the 'touch <blah>
<blah> ...' is about, after executing that you'll have to execute
'automake -a' again

I also recall when I was writing my plugin I found some
incompatibilities between some of the macros and my versions of auto*,
can't remember what the fix was off hand, I'll read my code when I get
home and see if it comes back.