liblinphone

This is liblinphone, a free (GPL) video voip library based on the SIP protocol. This library is used by Linphone. It's source code is available at linphone-desktop[1].

Building liblinphone

Required dependencies

• BcToolbox[2]: portability layer
• BelleSIP[3]: SIP stack
• Mediastreamer2[4]: multimedia engine
• Belcard[5]: VCard4 support
• libxml2
• zlib
• libsqlite3: user data storage (can be disabled)
• gettext and libintl: internationalization support (can be disabled)
• python interpreter and pystache, six python module (needed for C++/C#/Java wrappers and API documentation)
• doxygen and dot (needed for C++ wrapper and API documentation)

Optional dependencies

• Bzrtp[6]: zrtp stack used to secure calls and for LIME (Linphone Instant Messaging Encryption).
• For API documentation generation: sphinx, javasphinx, sphinx_csharp python modules are needed.

Build instructions

cmake . -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<prefix> -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<search_prefixes>

make
make install

Supported build opitons

• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<string> : install prefix
• CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=<string> : column-separated list of prefixes where to search for dependencies
• ENABLE_SHARED=NO : do not build the shared library
• ENABLE_STATIC=NO : do not build the static library
• ENABLE_STRICT=NO : build without strict compilation flags (-Wall -Werror)
• ENABLE_DOC=YES : Make the reference documentation of liblinphone to generated
• ENABLE_UNIT_TESTS=NO : do not build testing binaries
• ENABLE_VCARD=NO : disable VCard4 support
• ENABLE_TOOLS=NO : do not build tool binaries
• ENABLE_LIME=NO : disable Linphone Instant Messaging Encryption

Note for packagers

Our CMake scripts may automatically add some paths into research paths of generated binaries. To ensure that the installed binaries are striped of any rpath, use -DCMAKE_SKIP_INSTALL_RPATH=ON while you invoke cmake.

Rpm packaging liblinphone can be generated with cmake3 using the following command: mkdir WORK cd WORK cmake3 ../ make package_source rpmbuild -ta --clean --rmsource --rmspec liblinphone--.tar.gz

Credits

Belledonne Communications SARL, all rights reserved.

License

This software is distributed under GNU GPLv2. Please read COPYING file for full license text.

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• [1] linphone-desktop: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/linphone-desktop
• [2] bctoolbox: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/bctoolbox or https://www.linphone.org/releases/sources/bctoolbox
• [3] belle-sip: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/belle-sip or https://www.linphone.org/releases/sources/belle-sip
• [4] mediastreamer2: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/mediastreamer2 or https://www.linphone.org/releases/sources/mediastreamer
• [5] belcard: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/belcard or https://www.linphone.org/releases/sources/belcard
• [6] bzrtp: https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/bzrtp or https://www.linphone.org/releases/sources/bzrtp