libpurple.framework and SSL Support

[John Indra]

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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