licq

here's a tough one, Licq, <A HREF="http://www.licq.org," TARGET=_blank>www.licq.org,</A> problem with it is some dlopen() issues i think, the GUI is plugin based, but first problem would be the core.

I was thinking if i could get this core up, I could dabble in the idea of writing a Cocoa GUI plugin for licq if at all possible [img]images/icons/smile.gif"%20border="0[/img] -jerome

I remember messing with licq some time ago and I didn't get anywhere. If you work on it, post how far you get. I have sooo many worthwhile ports on my list I'd rather not work on licq (Especially when there is gaim with ICQ support (I use gaim for AIM prrotocol))

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well I could *try* and get somewhere if i could get past configure. i now have 2 packages that do a check for dlopen() on configure, there's dlcompat installed but not sure they're seeing that during configure, no clue how to get around it. heh
-jerome

hmm, spoke too soon, it appears AOL has changed ICQ, servers icq.mirabillis.com, icq1,2, etc. are gone. now login.icq.com, BUT you can't chnage that in gaim, protocol seems diff anyway, crashes Fire.app [img]images/icons/frown.gif"%20border="0[/img]
-jerome

hmm i think i made the core application compile with some minor code changes some time ago... the massive problems came when when i tried to compile the gui-plugins. the default interface is based on qt but even the gtk+ gui refrained from compiling.
licq itself needed some minor modifications with the configure - script, src/support.c and src/support.h

sebek

made 1.0.3 compile again
console and other standard plugins do not work. but gtk+licq compiles with minor fixes...
the only problem: it is not recognized by licq...
if anyone is still interested...

sebek

It's quite possible to make one's own dlopen() and stuff. Loading dynamic objects isn't too tough using Linux (or is it POSIX?). Therefore, it can't be too hard to make a dlopen() that makes Carbon calls. Take a look at this:

assume const char *path
CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath(NULL,path,kCFURLPOSIXPathStype,TRUE);
CFPlugInRef plugin = CFPlugInCreate(NULL,url);

CFPlugInCreate() is basically the same as dlopen(). Shouldn't be too hard to patch it. I think patching the plugins itself would be more of a task.