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ars3niy / tdlib-purple

libpurple Telegram plugin using tdlib
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Mac support / Builds? #143

Open TheQuinbox opened 2 years ago

TheQuinbox commented 2 years ago

I'm a fully blind Telegram user, and wanted to see if I could use this plugin accessibly (we currently have no accessible Telegram clients for the Mac). I'm using Adium as a client. Is there a way to build this for macOS, or have macOS builds released along with the Windows ones? Thank you.

BenWiederhake commented 2 years ago

I am aware of a blind user that used Finch with telegram-purple with great success. Finch is a text-only interface to libpurple, just like Pidgin and Adium are GUI interfaces to libpurple. Link to finch I guess Homebrew Pidgin also installs Finch? Link to what seems to be the Homebrew Code that installs Pidgin and also seems to install Finch I hope that tdlib-purple will work nicely for you.

I'm sorry, I'm not aware of any MacOS builds. :(

TheQuinbox commented 2 years ago

How would I install TDLib-purple when using Finch? If I can get it built, it'll probably work with Adium as well.

BenWiederhake commented 2 years ago

In essentially the same way; tdlib-purple installs itself by placing a .so-file in a specific folder. Finch either looks in the same folder, in which case it just works, or it looks in a different folder, in which case you can either just copy the file over, or even better we fix the install script.

egslava commented 1 year ago

Hello, any results, @TheQuinbox @BenWiederhake . Is it possible to get an already built *.AdiumLibpurplePlugin for tdlib-purple?

BenWiederhake commented 1 year ago

Absolutely! Just build them, send them to me, and I'll publish them to the release page. I don't provide any support for proprietary software.

I suggest using my fork as a starting point, as I've merged many of the PRs from this repository.