Build Error about bitlbee-discord

[sm00th]

Yes, for now makesystem is dumb and doesn't do much to work with non-standard library installation paths. AFAIK libwebsockets installs by default to /usr/local, not /usr, so you can try installing libwebsockets to /usr as the plugin expects, to do so, use cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr .. instead of cmake .. while building libwebsockets. Or you can use CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" make when building bitlbee-discord.

src/discord-handlers.h:25:55: error: unknown type name ‘json_value’

This error, however, is not related to libwebsockets and looks like you have a rather old version of bitlbee.

[sm00th]

Oh, you specified bitlbee's version and 3.4.1 should have required structure. If the error still there when all libwebsockets errors are gone can you please post the output of the following command:

grep -n json_value /usr/include/bitlbee/json.h 

[Kays]

Hmm, looks like it installed to /usr/local/include/bitlbee/json.h. So I rebuilt bitlbee's dev files with:

configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install-dev

Then I ran make clean and make on bitlbee-discord and still same error =/. https://gist.github.com/Kays/20c6daf6f941ecebde3a

Do I have to reinstall the entire bitlbee binary to the new /usr path as well?

[sm00th]

Did you do the stuff from my firs comment? Is there a /usr/include/libwebsockets.h?

[Kays]

Ah, yes. I rebuild libwebsockets with prefix=/usr.

$> ls -al /usr/include/libwebsockets.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 61453 Dec 31 09:25 /usr/include/libwebsockets.h

I also tried the CFLAGS make, but still not working: https://gist.github.com/Kays/1588601e69e6421718b4
Not sure if this helps, but the server is running Debian Wheezy:

$> cat /etc/debian_version 
7.9

Really weird.

[sm00th]

Ok, json_value error is my own bug and it should be fixed by edffe8c.
As for libwebsockets issue: I wasn't keeping up with the development on their side and apparently they broke the API again in this commit. Thats what you get for using libraries that are still in development phase. I'll update bitlbee-discord accordingly when they bring their main repo at libwebsockets.org back up, as for now you can build libwebsockets prior to this commit and rebuild bitlbee-discord with it.

[sm00th]

Made libwebsockets changes in commit 2d12954, should compile fine with latest libwebsockets now.

[Kays]

Works! Thank you very much. One change that I had to make in Makefile is:
install -Dm=755 to install -Dm 0755 because the equal sign results in install: invalid mode=755'`

BTW: Happy New Year to you!

[Kays]

Do you know if there's a way to not have two channels with the same name across multiple Discord servers clash in bitlbee? Currently, it just names it subsequent ones with _ suffices. I'm thinking maybe even #server.channel convention can work? Just a thought.

[sm00th]

Happy new year to you too.

Thanks for mentioning that install issue, commited a fix for that.

As for channelnames collisions - there is no way to avoid this at the moment. I've been thinking about server_channel convention, but from what I saw server/channel names tend to be quite long, so I definitely don't want this convention to be applied by default, I might implement it as an option though.