Fwd: libpurple.framework and SSL Support

John Indra john.indra at gmail.com
Wed Mar 7 09:16:31 UTC 2012


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> From: John Indra <i.john at me.com>
> Subject: Re: libpurple.framework and SSL Support
> Date: March 7, 2012 4:13:15 PM GMT+07:00
> To: Thijs Alkemade <thijsalkemade at gmail.com>, Adium Development List <devel at adium.im>
> 
> All,
> 
> Sorry to bother you all with such a noob questions.
> I manage to get SSL support working!
> Thanks.
> 
> I forgot to initialize the plugin. So sorry for that.
> 
> w00t
> 
> Thanks once more.
> 
> Best regards,
> John
> 
> On Mar 7, 2012, at 4:04 PM, John Indra wrote:
> 
>> Hi Thijs,
>> 
>> Thank you so much for elaborating. Looks like Evan already gave me the complete guide but I failed to understand.
>> 
>> Thus now here's my position:
>> 
>> I added the 2 files you mentioned: ssl.c and ssl-cdsa.c to my project, add Security.framework, add HAVE_CDSA in preprocessor macros, for both Debug and Release. Compilation goes smoothly.
>> 
>> Like previous time, I execute a method with just this statement:
>> 
>> printf("SSL support: %d", purple_ssl_is_supported());
>> 
>> It still prints 0 :(
>> 
>> Is there something I must do to initialize the SSL support?
>> 
>> Thank you so much.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> John
>> 
>> On Mar 7, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Thijs Alkemade wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On 7 mrt. 2012, at 05:09, John Indra wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Evan,
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you very much for the prompt reply. Really appreciated.
>>>> 
>>>> However I am new with C and Cocoa. Could you help answer the questions below?
>>>> 
>>>> 1. Are you saying that the libpurple.framework supplied with Adium was built with no SSL support?
>>> 
>>> That is correct.
>>> 
>>>> 2. If my app wants to have libpurple with SSL support, do I have to recompile from Adium's source?
>>> 
>>> That is not necessary. The only two files from Adium's source you need are ssl.c and ssl_cdsa.c
>>> (see http://hg.adium.im/adium/file/tip/Plugins/Purple%20Service/libpurple_extensions/ssl.c and
>>> http://hg.adium.im/adium/file/tip/Plugins/Purple%20Service/libpurple_extensions/ssl-cdsa.c). You should
>>> be able to use these files without any other parts of Adium's source code (they only depend on libpurple
>>> itself and system frameworks).
>>> 
>>> Here: http://hg.adium.im/adium/file/89eb0d28dc0f/Plugins/Purple%20Service/adiumPurpleCore.m#l73
>>> you can see how these are loaded.
>>> 
>>>> 3. Or can I just drop AdiumLibpurple.framework to my project and add Security.framework?
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> You could, but AdiumLibpurple.framework is linked against Adium.framework, AIUtilities, etc.
>>> You'd bring in a lot more code then you'd need.
>>> 
>>> Thijs
>>> 
>> 
> 





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