[mythtv-users] Building mythplugins

[Kevin Kuphal]

Dave Sherohman wrote:

>Finally got around to downloading the mythplugins tarball and trying
>to set that up, primarily to get MythVideo so I can watch stuff that
>didn't come off of cable.  The FAQ is extremely vague about what each
>plugin would be used for, but I think I've correctly narrowed it down
>to wanting MythWeb (which I assume is what the .configure calls
>"mythbrowser" - any chance of getting this name changed so that it's
>called the same thing everywhere?), MythGallery, MythVideo, and
>MythWeather.  I expected to want MythDVD also, but it appears from
>the FAQ that you use MythDVD *only* if you want to rip DVDs, not just
>to play them; is this correct?  (Is DVD playback handled by
>MythVideo, then?)
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MythBrowser is for browsing the Internet from the frontend
Mythweb is like a web frontend usually installed on the backend or other 
web server.
MythDVD plays DVDs as well as rips them IIRC

>Anyhow, I seem to have stumbled across some undocumented
>dependencies.  webpage.h in the mythbrowser directory complains that
>it can't find kapplication.h, kcmdlineargs.h, klocale.h, kurl.h, or
>kparts/browserextension.h.  From the pattern in the filenames, I
>would tend to assume that these are from some KDE library or other,
>but (as a non-user of KDE (or GNOME, for that matter; a plain old
>window manager is all I need)) I have no idea what librar(y|ies) that
>would be.  I'm also completely baffled as to why a webpage generator
>would be dependent on GUI code (even if it's just for the plugin's
>configuration screen, why would it need GUI code that isn't needed by
>the host application?), so perhaps I'm wrong and it's not KDE at all.
>
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>
Try reading the README in the MythBrowser folder.  It explains quite 
clearly that you need the KDE development package installed.

>The full output of make follows, but my basic question is:  What
>additional dependencies do I need to install (beyond the apache and
>PHP documented in the FAQ) to get this to build?
>  
>
As noted above, don't confuse MythBrowser and Mythweb.  Very different.

Kevin