OBS Studio doesn't start when obs-linuxbrowser is installed

[nobuhibiki]

For some reason when I have the obs-linuxbrowser in the .config folder OBS just wouldn't start. I've tried installing both version and none of them works.

I'm running Debian 9.3

[bazukas]

Hello, it seems like the binary release is not working on Debian for some reason. Your best bet for now would be building the plugin yourself.

[nobuhibiki]

I tried building the plugin but I'm stuck on the cmake -D CEF_DIR=<path to your cef dir> .. You might need to also set OBS_INCLUDE and/or OBS_LIB build variables part. Do you mind clarifying how this is done?

[bazukas]

Did you try just running cmake -D CEF_DIR=...? set CEF_DIR to directory where you have extracted and built the CEF.

Post the log if not successful.

[nobuhibiki]

Tried, when I typed make after that this shows up:

~/Documents/2017/obs-linuxbrowser/build$ make
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/sacredwknight/Documents/2017/obs-linuxbrowser/build
[  7%] Building C object CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/src/plugin/main.c.o
/home/sacredwknight/Documents/2017/obs-linuxbrowser/src/plugin/main.c:17:24: fatal error: obs-module.h: No such file or directory
 #include <obs-module.h>
                        ^
compilation terminated.
CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/build.make:62: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/src/plugin/main.c.o' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/src/plugin/main.c.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:67: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/obs-linuxbrowser.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:127: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

[bazukas]

It seems that debian obs-studio package does not include development headers. I think what you should try is:

• clone obs-studio repository or download source tarball (git clone https://github.com/jp9000/obs-studio.git)
• run cmake -D CEF_DIR=... -D OBS_INCLUDE=..., set OBS_INCLUDE to obs-studio/libobs directory

If somebody else was successful in building the plugin on Debian their input will be appreciated.

[NexAdn]

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libobs-dev

This should be the debian package containing the necessary development headers to compile obs-linuxbrowser.

EDIT: How I build my cef-minimal distribution:

– download and extract the archive (see the link in README.md) – cd into the extracted folder – run cmake . && make clean && make -j4 libcef_dll_wrapper (don't forget the dot after cmake) – copy the contents of the folder to a new folder /opt/cef (root required, optional)

After having completed the installation of cef-minimal, you can easily compile and install obs-linuxbrowser: – call obs-linuxbrowser's cmake command like this: cmake -D CEF_DIR=/opt/cef .. (don't forget the two dots at the end) – run make -j4 && make install

If you understand the shell script language, you can look into the AUR packages of cef-minimal [1] and obs-linuxbrowser [2].

EDIT 2: Or you can let this [3] little piece of code do the job. Download the file, make it executable and execute it.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cef-minimal [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=obs-linuxbrowser [3] https://gist.github.com/NexAdn/47d2ef526da833eeff9f697f206e6a8f or https://gist.githubusercontent.com/NexAdn/47d2ef526da833eeff9f697f206e6a8f/raw/62f6cc384eb94a0a304b8486015ea04c15795ca8/install.sh

[bazukas]

Closed due to lack of response