It would be fantastic if this amazing plugin would be ported to a .so-file for Linux as well!

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Okay, I got it to compile on OpenSuse 12.2 x86_64, using this command. I probably included far more than I needed to, but I didn't feel like doing the research on what was actually needed:

gcc libmightytext.c strptime.c -o libmightytext.so pkg-config --cflags --libs glib-2.0 -I/usr/include/json-glib-1.0 -I/usr/include/libpurple -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -lgthread-2.0 -lrt -lglib-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lgio-2.0 -lpangoft2-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lcairo -lpango-1.0 -lfreetype -lfontconfig -lgobject-2.0 -lglib-2.0 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -lpurple -lglib-2.0 -ljson-glib-1.0 -g -O2 -shared -fPIC

mv libmightytext.so /usr/lib64/purple-2/libmightytext.so mv mightytext16.png /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/16/mightytext.png mv mightytext22.png /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22/mightytext.png mv mightytext48.png /usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/48/mightytext.png

For me, it connected and works. The attached libmightytext.so is x86_64. The locations are probably different for other distributions, so you might do "locate libaim.so" and "locate 16/aim.png" to find the correct locations.

Here is a Makefile that works for debian wheezy. After compiling, copy the library to /usr/lib/pidgin/libmightytext.so

Compiled per instructions below, but when I log into it, I see my contact list filling up, then a message window opens, and all of pidgin crashes. Not quite sure how to bypass this.

You probably received an MMS image. I've been having this problem lately too.

This plugin wouldn't load with telepathy-haze unless I specified the json library during linking (at least on Fedora 20). I used the attached Makefile to build the shared library. It doesn't really work though. I see from the debug logs that it gets a list of contacts but then reports an internal error so it doesn't really work with empathy. Didn't try pidgin by itself. My guess is the following line is the source of the problem.

** (haze:5403): CRITICAL **: purple_find_buddy: assertion '(name != NULL) && (*name != '\0')' failed

I made the changes suggested here and created a repo on github:

https://github.com/tubaman/pidgin-mightytext/tree/debian_makefile