Building blueZync

This is the building page for blueZync 0.1.6. See also Building latest blueZync version.

Building blueZync

blueZync currently only builds on Linux

Prerequisites

You will need

• cmake (at least version 2.4.7)

You will need the development packages for the following:

• libical
• glib2
• libxml2
• thunderbird

Those can probably be installed with your package manager.

You will also need

• sunbird-xpcom-devel

If it is not offered by your distro, you can use this

You will also need to

• download at least version 0.34 of OpenSync, including downloading at least version 0.4.5 of LibSyncML.

This is not likely to be available in your package manager.

You may find the following scripts in the blueZync utils directory useful:

• download-opensync.sh
• build-install-prereqs.sh
• build-install-opensync.sh

Please note that if you build OpenSync out of SVN, there are currently (2007-12-01) some bugs in the syncml plugin (see this message), but using the 0.34 packages should work.

Downloading

Check out the source:

svn co https://bluezync.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluezync/trunk/libopensync-plugin-mozilla libopensync-plugin-mozilla
svn co https://bluezync.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluezync/trunk/blueZync4thunderbird blueZync4thunderbird
svn co https://bluezync.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bluezync/trunk/utils utils

or download source tarballs from the SourceForge repository

Building

Either use the script build-install-bluezync.sh in the blueZync utils directory, or build manually:

You should set a prefix and the path to your package files:

export PREFIX="/usr/local"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"

Create a buid directory and cd into it. Now run

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$PREFIX" <path-to-libopensync-plugin-mozilla-source-dir>
make install
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="$PREFIX" <path-to-blueZync4thunderbird-source-dir>
make install

Try it out

You must do something like export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.6/:/usr/local/lib/opensync/formats

• Obviously the paths need to point to where thunderbird and opensync respectively, are installed
• The thunderbird path is only necessary if you run e.g. msynctool outside of thunderbird
• I guess the need for opensync/formats is a bug in OpenSync...

make install in blueZync4thunderbird installs the extension files into /usr/local/share/blueZync (depending on your PREFIX setting, of course).

In your Thunderbird profile extension directory (something like /home/someone/.thunderbird/ab1cde23/extensions) create a file called blueZync@KaarPoSoft.dk with a single line in it:

/usr/local/share/blueZync/

Now Thunderbird should load the extension (verify with Tools -> Add-ons in Thunderbird)

• Look in Thunderbird's Tools menu - at the bottom you should find blueZync

See also the (very incomplete) blueZync manual

Support

Problems? The blueZync Developers Discussion Forum is your friend!