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Building aMSN with audio and video on OpenSolaris - piece of cake!
I got tired of not being able to use webcam and audio with my friends on OpenSolaris... so I decided to tackle the problem. Blastwave's version of aMSN was very old... so there was no other option... get it myself and build it.
Turned out to be trivial...
Get the sources from : http://www.amsn-project.net/ and then ./configure, then gmake, then pfexec gmake install (my OpenSolaris box has already GCC and the GNU compiler suite installed). Simpler for all GNU / Linux source codes available out there.
First thing that happens when you run it is that it tells you it wants TLS to log in... so you install the SUNWtcltls package form the OpenSolaris repository with Package Manager... and in the advance preferences tab, specify that TLS is at : /usr/lib/tcl8.4/tls1.6 ... and voila... you can log in.
Of course, next thing is that there is no audio... so you figure out it wants Snack, the audio library for TCL... well, that too is available from the OpenSolaris repository through Package Manager. Just install SUNWsnack and restart aMSN. Then you can configure audio (preferences -> advanced) to use Snack...
For the webcam, it's even simpler. OpenSolaris includes USB-VC drivers for Video4Linux2, so plug in a high-end USB-VC webcam and aMSN directly supports it! Just go to the preferences->others menu in aMSN and edit the audio and video settings!
I love it when things just work!
Posted at 11:50PM Apr 26, 2009 by gravax in Opensource | Comments[5]
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Hi
Have you tried the web site https://imo.im/
You can use several kind of services like msn or skype , from solaris o opensolaris.
Ciao
Paolo
Posted by Paolo on November 03, 2009 at 06:57 PM CET #
hi,
how to built it in opensolaris 126???
./configure don't find X11
compile time options summary
============================
X11 : no
Tcl : 8.4
TK : 8.4
DEBUG : no
STATIC : no
thanks!
Posted by marco on November 11, 2009 at 07:46 PM CET #
Paolo,
You don't need a web based IM. OpenSolaris ships with Pidgin... which is also multi-protocol.
If you want to used a web based IM... I prefer eBuddy.
Posted by Gilles Gravier on November 11, 2009 at 07:52 PM CET #
Marco,
You are probably lacking the proper headers on your system. This usually happens if you haven't installed the basic packages for building applications.
Did you install them first ?
pfexec pkg install SUNWxorg-headers
Gilles
Posted by Gilles Gravier on November 11, 2009 at 07:58 PM CET #
thanks! i just installed SUNWxorg-headers, and now /configure work!
Thanks!
Posted by marco falchi on November 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM CET #