Is there a decent dc++ client yet?

Message

Deranger · Post by **Deranger** » Mon Jul 18, 2005 9:44 am

venus_to_mars wrote:I'm not sure if this is a gtk problem, but I'm not allowed to shrink tabs such as 'Description' 'Tag' and 'eMail' down once I get them as small as these names. I really don't care about users' email addresses, so in other DC programs I just shrink these tabs down to oblivion.

Me neither. However, it would be nice.

venus_to_mars wrote: Second, I would like to second the request for slash commands, such as '/refresh'. I know that there is a hash button at the top, but there are plenty of other commands that would be nice to have back.

There will be user commands some day. Patience is a virtue.

Vitaliy · Post by **Vitaliy** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 3:47 am

Is there anyway to compile this without having to upgrade GCC?

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:39 pm

i compiled the client everything went ok : no error messages

However when i connect to a hub i have forllowing error:

Userlist doesnt load properly
- example - i know hub has 90 users and it loads only 11 of them and it is terribly slow

Can it be port issue?
i selected TCP and UDP port 9176 (the same one as valknut uses)

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:55 pm

Is there anyway to compile this without having to upgrade GCC?

well you can try to only emerge new gcc (i recommend 3.4.3 since 3.4.4 has some bugs)
and then try to switch to new compiler , compile the client and then switch to old compiler

Code: Select all

# nano -w /etc/portage/package.keywords

add following lines

Code: Select all

~sys-devel/gcc-3.4.3.20050110 ~x86
sys-devel/gcc-config ~x86
sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 ~x86

then install gcc

Code: Select all

# emerge gcc

then list available compilers

Code: Select all

# gcc-config -l

this will list the available compilers with corresponding numbers like here

Code: Select all

[1] i386-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.4 *
[2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3 
[3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-hardened
[4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-hardenednopie
[5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.3-hardenednossp

then switch to new compiler

Code: Select all

# gcc-config -2

- of course change the number which corresponds to gcc-3.4.3 on your machine

then do

Code: Select all

# env-update && source /etc/profile

this command will tell computer to use new compiler in your CURRENT console

after that
you can in this console compile the client

and switch back to old gcc-3.3 using gcc-config

....im not sure if this will work - i can assure you it wont do any harm to your system

Maf · Post by **Maf** » Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:23 pm

hey guys, i got a problem, i've just emerged dc-qt with no problems, but now i dont know how to run it, i used to use windows;) after emerging firefox it just added itself automaticly to "start menu", but after emerging dc-qt it didn't.. what to do? how to run it / add it to menu?

yaneurabeya · Post by **yaneurabeya** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 5:03 am

Maf wrote:hey guys, i got a problem, i've just emerged dc-qt with no problems, but now i dont know how to run it, i used to use windows;) after emerging firefox it just added itself automaticly to "start menu", but after emerging dc-qt it didn't.. what to do? how to run it / add it to menu?

What DE? If it's not XFCE4.2, consider using menumaker. It's available in portage for installation.

Btw, if you're going to use a compiler it's either the 3.3.x series or the 4.0 series. gcc 4.0 is fairly bleeding edge, but it's going to be developed faster than the 3.4.x series IMO because a lot of mainstream OSes are including 4.0 as their primary/backup gcc compilers (Mac OSX Tiger and Fedora Core 4 are just some of them).

madman2003 · Post by **madman2003** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 6:25 am

I have a problem with linuxdcpp, (usually) long messages don't appear. I read something in the bugs section of linuxdcpp that someone had problems with utf-8 so used luit to run the program with ISO-8859-1, but that didn't work either. Anyone encounter anything like this?

naga · Post by **naga** » Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:27 am

I've just posted a bug on bugs.gentoo.org requesting that linuxdcpp be added to portage. If anyone feels like trying out the ebuild it's in bug #102733. Any comments on this ebuild?
/Naga

Slavo · Post by **Slavo** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:57 pm

how to install it ?

naga · Post by **naga** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:43 am

The ebuild at b.g.o is a bit out of date. There's been some new patches to ldcpp since that posting and since it won't get included until a release is made I haven't updated it (a release is due soon...)

How to install dcpp.

1: If you don't know what ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} is or how to use third party ebuilds first read http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing ... ty_Ebuilds
2: Download an ebuild from http://dx.homelinux.org/gentoo/portage- ... -p2p/dcpp/ and save in ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/dcpp/
3: Download the patch file with the same version as the ebuild http://dx.homelinux.org/gentoo/portage- ... cpp/files/ and save in ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/dcpp/files/
4: If using a non CVS (ver 0.9999) ebuild: Download the snapshot file with the same date as the ebuild http://dx.homelinux.org/gentoo/portage- ... distfiles/ and save in ${PORTDIR_DIR}/distfiles/
5: Type :
ebuild ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-p2p/dcpp/dcpp-${VERSION}.ebuild digest
Where ${VERSION} is the version of the ebuild you just downloaded.
Where ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY} is the path that is specified in /etc/make.conf.
6: Type :
echo 'net-p2p/dcpp ~x86' >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
7: Now :
emerge -av dcpp
8: Start with :
dcpp

Winterbird · Post by **Winterbird** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:27 pm

you know dcpp looks really promising... as a matter of fact if it wasn't for the fact that it segfaults every time I try to download anything, it would be the perfect dc client for linux

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 4:14 pm

ya the stability issues suck. it crashes alot for me just randomly it seems :/

G2k · Post by **G2k** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:41 pm

why the heck was this made to compile only with the unstable gcc?? Who came up with this bad idea? I heard that gcc 4 will be stable before 3.4 (if 3.4 ever reaches stable at all)

Ard Righ · Post by **Ard Righ** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:54 pm

Any chance of some updated screenshots of linuxdcpp ? There don't appear to be any in this thread, and no screenshots at all on the website

radfoj · Post by **radfoj** » Sun Sep 11, 2005 10:00 pm

Ard Righ wrote:Any chance of some updated screenshots of linuxdcpp ? There don't appear to be any in this thread, and no screenshots at all on the website

I post link to screenshot in another thread

naga · Post by **naga** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:14 am

G2k wrote:why the heck was this made to compile only with the unstable gcc?? Who came up with this bad idea?

The gcc team... It's because a bug in the gcc 3.3 series and it's handling of templates.

Btw a beta release is on it's way...

G2k · Post by **G2k** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:19 am

no but I mean, why wasn't linux dc++ made so it could be compiled under gcc 3.3.x?

naga · Post by **naga** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 3:55 am

Why rewrite good valid code to overcome a bug that is already fixed?
And I guess the main reason is that since linuxdc++ is using the DC++ client part and that doesn't have this problem since it is developed in MS visual studio. They didn't (and don't) want to change anything that the DC++ team won't incorporate in the DC++ client.

boniek · Post by **boniek** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:16 pm

Code: Select all

>>> Install dcpp-0.9999 into /var/tmp/portage/dcpp-0.9999/image/ category net-p2p
 * INSTALLING
 * Current path is /var/tmp/portage/dcpp-0.9999/work/linuxdcpp
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
Checking for g++ >= 3.4...ok
Checking for pkg-config... ok
Checking for gtk+-2.0 >= 2.4... ok
Checking for gthread-2.0 >= 2.4... ok
Checking for libglade-2.0 >= 2.4... ok
Checking for C header file time.h... yes
Checking for C header file signal.h... yes
Checking for C header file unistd.h... yes
Checking for C header file sys/poll.h... yes
Checking for main() in C library pthread... yes
Checking for main() in C library z... yes
Checking for main() in C library bz2... yes
Checking for PTHREAD_RECURSIVE_MUTEX_INITIALIZER_NP in pthread.h... ok
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
scons: *** Do not know how to make target `install'.  Stop.
scons: building terminated because of errors.

!!! ERROR: net-p2p/dcpp-0.9999 failed.
!!! Function src_install, Line 98, Exitcode 2
!!! Install failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

Got this error when tried to emerge (ebuild taken from naga website).
Any help appreciated.

naga · Post by **naga** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:40 pm

When did you get the ebuild? I've been rewriting it since some of the patches are in the sources right now.

Btw it seems like you didn't get the patch for SConstruct.
It should work soon... (I hope

)

boniek · Post by **boniek** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 5:57 pm

I have all files that are found here: http://dx.homelinux.org/gentoo/portage- ... t-p2p/dcpp
It seems like ebuild does not apply this patch however.
Btw thanks for working on ebuild for dc++. I really appreciate this.

naga · Post by **naga** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:01 pm

Try getting a fresh copy. I just reemerged and it went fine.

boniek · Post by **boniek** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 6:16 pm

Thanks now it works as it is supposed to do.

Zepp · Post by **Zepp** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 12:44 am

Has alot of improvement been made? I am not sure what release/snapshot I am running but it crashes a fair bit.

naga · Post by **naga** » Sat Oct 01, 2005 1:18 pm

The latest version (as of 2005-09-30) doesn't crash alot for me but there is a nasty deadlock that can occur when you open a new window.
There's been some major changes to dcpp but they are internal rewrites for making the code faster and easier to maintain. Påskharen has promised a realease soon (as in when it happens

) so hopefully we will get it into portage then. And that will make it a lot easier to maintain the ebuild / patches.

Is there a decent dc++ client yet?

question