[Users] I seem to be missing something in respect of the "Fancy" plugin.

[Milan Obuch]

On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 07:46:36 +0200, Ralf Mardorf via Users
<users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 07:05:59 +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:
> >I think you should try to get libwebkit2gtk-4.0, as seen in
> >config.log file, not libwebkitgtk-4.0 - see the difference? I am not
> >Linux user, but, incidentaly, I just built fancy plugin on FreeBSD,
> >and additional dependency was www/webkit2-gtk3 (note the '2' in port
> >name).  
> 
> That should work for FreeBSD and a Linux distro such as Arch
> Linux, where the "bundle" from upstream isn't split into several
> packages.
> 
> On Arch Linux it's extra/webkit2gtk.
> 
> However, Ubuntu/Debian and probably other DEB based distros split the
> packages. IOW at runtime libwebkit2gtk is needed, but to get the
> headers, to build Claws against it, libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev needs to be
> installed.
> 
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/webkit2gtk
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev
> 

That was my point - OP tried to install libwebkitgtk-4.0 while
configure output's hint was libwebkit2gtk-4.0, users of such distros
should be probably aware of split packages...

One question from my side as well - in configure.ac one finds optional
dependency for fancy, libsoup-gnome. What additional functionality in
plugin it enables/activates? It was used some years ago in FreeBSD
port, but now it's gone for some (not known to me, yet) reason, and I
built the plugin without it. Just curious what I am missing, if
anything...

Regards,
Milan