Building Google's Libjingle in ubuntu linux 5.10
Update (Jan 4 2009): this post is outdated in 2 ways… the latest version of ubuntu is 8.10 and the latest version of libjingle is 0.40 . I am no longer using libjingle as well 
Here is my experience building libjingle** in my Ubuntu Linux 5.10. I spent nearly a day building it (including many u-turns). I am writing this how-to in the hope you will spend much less time. YMMV.
Contents:
- Hardware tried on
- Installation
- Download
- Installing dependencies using
- Synaptic package manager
- Direct compilation
- Installing lilbjingle
- Future Goodies
I am using Ubuntu 5.10 with all updates as of this day of posting. I have installed libjingle in the following hardware.
* Fujitsu lifebook S7021
* DELL Precision 670
* Assembled PIV system
First, Install the following packages using Synaptic Package Manager.
* libexpat1-dev
* libglib2.0-dev
* libogg-dev
* libssl-dev
* libasound2-dev
If some configure script later-on is unhappy with the env, installing the following may help. These are few of the u-turns I experimented with. These are not required per se.
* libspeex-dev
* openssl
Dowload the following external packages:
* ortp, speex, iLBC, libjingle
I have created a parent folder “libjingle” and downloaded the packges there.
Now CD to that folder and do the following instructions:
tar zxvf ortp-0.7.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf speex-1.0.5.tar.gz
tar zxvf ilbc-rfc3951.tar.gz
tar zxvf libjingle-0.2.1.tar.gz
cd ortp-0.7.1
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
cd speex-1.0.5
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
cd ilbc-rfc3951
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd ..
cd libjingle-0.2.1
./configure –with-ilbc=/usr/local
make
sudo make install
That’s it, your libjingle library is now inside the talk folder. Enjoy.
There are 3 examples included in the package. I am yet to try out.
Future Goodies:
I have proposed using libjingle for my Real-Time Systems course module project in NUS, Singapore where I am doing my part-time PhD in Computer Science. The Professor instantly accepted it with an additional “Wow” factor.
We believe we have come-up with an innovate RTS application using Google’s Talk infrastructure. Once we bring it to realiy, which is scheduled for completion by end March 2006, we will release it the community including code. My motto: take from community; give back to community.
** libjingle is an implementation of proposed jingle and jingle-audio extensions to XMPP (an IM) protocol.
Category: Computer Science, How-To 8 comments »
March 8th, 2006 at 2:42 pm
The breezy packages are available from http://issaris.be/breezy/
Jaya
March 8th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
Getting PSI client to work with Google Talk in Linux
http://mylinuxsaga.blogspot.com/2006/02/getting-gtalk-working-on-linux.html
Jaya
March 14th, 2006 at 8:54 pm
Cool!! someone found my post useful other than myself and my faithful friend
Keep posting…your blog looks very promising!!
August 17th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I really like your spirit of taking from community and giving back to community …
Can send me your RTS application Project in NUS.
That will be helpful for me .
Thanks in advance..
swap.kamble@gmail.com
August 17th, 2007 at 9:41 pm
Sure! give me few days, need to search for it
I will post here for the benefit of everyone 
September 5th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Hi,
I want to create a text chat application by libjingle. But I am not getting the which classes do I need ? Can you please help me in that ?
Thanks in advance
September 19th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
man u made my day.
I was tired of searching for ilbc sourcecode. From where did u find the source code?
October 8th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Hi,
When will be posting RTS application Project in NUS.
That will be helpful for us . We all are waiting for that !!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks in advance..