User:Dzonatas Sol/Communicator

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Notes related to SNOW-375 on how to download, compile, install, and run the viewer with detached windows.

Step-by-Step Guide

Compile Against Snowglobe Trunk Sources

• $ svn co http://svn.secondlife.com/svn/linden/projects/2009/snowglobe/trunk

Get Current Libraries and Artwork

• $ wget http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/oss-viewer/slviewer-linux-libs-oss-viewer-1.23.4.139024.tar.gz http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/oss-viewer/slviewer-artwork-oss-viewer-1.23.4.139024.zip
• $ ln -s trunk/ linden
• $ unzip slviewer-artwork-oss-viewer-1.23.4.139024.zip
• $ tar xzf slviewer-linux-libs-oss-viewer-1.23.4.139024.tar.gz

Prepare

• $ cd linden/indra/
• $ ./develop.py configure

Apply Patch

Do it inside linden/

• $ cd ../
• $ cp (...)/snow-375.0.9.6.patch.txt .
• $ patch -p1 < snow-375.0.9.6.patch.txt

Compile

• $ cd indra/viewer-linux-i686-relwithdebinfo
• $ make

Install Gnome# Desktop

Communicator needs depends on Gnome# Desktop runtime, install if you haven't already:

• Debian/Unbuntu:
  • apt-get install gnome-desktop-sharp2
• Windows:
  • Gtk# 2.12 for Windows
  • Or, see here for latest: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

Run Communicator and Snowglobe

• after compilation you get (...)/linden/indra/viewer-linux-i686-relwithdebinfo/newview/Snowglobe-i686-1.3.0.0.tar.bz2 - copy it somewhere and extract it
• run Snowglobe
• get and extract Dzonatas Sol's Communicator (separate build) - currently http://mono.dzonux.net/file/communicator.0.9.6.zip
• run communicator.exe
• login in Snowglobe
• use the toolbar Communicate button to show the detached windows

Also see original notes provided by Opensource Obscure.

Options

Communicator Command Line

As of 0.9.6, these options are available:

$ communicator.exe --uri=http://host.tld:port --port=number

• --uri : overrides default outgoing URI connection to the viewer
• --port : overrides default incoming port connection to communicator

Snowglobe Preferences

These preferences can be found in the debug menu of the viewer:

• InterfaceAllowConnections : To allow connections or deny all connections
• InterfaceAllowRemoteConnections : To allow/deny remote connections
• InterfaceServerPort : The port number of the API

Repository

Use git to clone the repository:

$ git clone http://gitweb.dzonux.net/project/communicator.git

There are a few branches:

master              - source branch of current version
communicator        - latest development branch (merges into master, tagged into X.X.X)
communicator.X.X.X  - tagged branches of specific version X
snowglobe           - latest development branch with changes for communicator
Upstream-X.X.X      - snapshot of oss-viewer branch in LL's repository

You can also browse the repository.

Issues

• Need to automatically spawn Communicator when Snowglobe starts. Currently have to spawn separately.
• Need a preference panel option to set address of Web/REST server port. (Used to connect from communicator to viewer asynchronously.)
• Need a preference panel option to set address of default TCP dial-out port. (Used to connect from viewer to communicator synchronously.)
• Update cmake build-package to include communicator and extra libs if specified on cmake config or make command, but not to include by default.
• Need a debug option to Hide/Show built-in communicator windows when detached windows are shown.

Also see the issue tracker for MonoVida Communicator.