[SOLVED] PipeWire

[lydloke]

In order to write modules for Jack one can install "libjack-jackd2-dev". Does PipeWire have something similar?

[oshunluvr]

~$ apt-cache search pipewire |grep dev
libpipewire-0.3-dev - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - development
libspa-0.2-dev - libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server Simple Plugin API - development
libkpipewire-dev - KDE's Pipewire library
~$ 
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[lydloke]

The following:
sudo apt install libpipewire-0.3-dev
sudo apt install libspa-0.2-dev
did the trick, together with, in CMakeLists.txt,:
set(PW_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/pipewire-0.3/" "/usr/include/spa-0.2/")
Thanks.

[lydloke]

This allowed me to compile, but where are the pw libs needed for linking? I cannot find then on Kubuntu 24.04 nor anywhere else.

[lydloke]

There is a deb package her (https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/libspa-0.2-dev), but trying to install it results in errors.

[oshunluvr]

I know nothing about pipewire or what you're trying to do, but it's generally not a good idea to install an outside package over an Ubuntu provided one.

Are you working under the assumption that libspa-0.2-dev in the repos is some how different than libspa-0.2-dev in Debian repos?

[oshunluvr]

This might help: https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packag.../base/pipewire

[lydloke]

The official Ubuntu libs does not seem to work. The headers work OK, but I end up with linker errors, so maybe there is some kind of version mismatch. Thanks anyway.

[lydloke]

Fixed. The PW dev-libs are now in:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so
and the linker is happy.

[RedGreen925]

Fixed. The PW dev-libs are now in:
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so
and the linker is happy.

In the future having the apt-file package installed will help with finding the package needed to get the file(s) missing.

zeus@9600k:~$ apt-file search x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so
libpipewire-0.3-0t64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so.0
libpipewire-0.3-0t64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so.0.1005.0
libpipewire-0.3-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so

As you can see it finds the file you wanted for the linker error, an apt-file update after installing allows any user to do the searches.

[lydloke]

That's really good news. Will that be included in Ubuntu 24.10?

[Snowhog]

That's really good news. Will that be included in Ubuntu 24.10?

Just install it: sudo apt install apt-file

[lydloke]

Works fine. It is very similar to
find /usr | grep x86_64-linux-gnu/libpipewire-0.3.so