[pulseaudio-discuss] How to setup developer environment to develop pulseaudio modules?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Mon, 2017-10-23 at 13:58 +0530, namittal at codeaurora.org wrote:
> On 2017-10-20 18:37, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> > 2017-10-17 16:03 GMT+05:00  <namittal at codeaurora.org>:
> > > I using ubuntu 14.04 and pulseaudio 4.0. I am compiling very simple 
> > > test
> > > module, module-test.c
> > > 
> > > #include <pulsecore/module.h>
> > > 
> > > int pa__init(pa_module* m){
> > >   return 0;
> > > }
> > > 
> > > when i try to compile it using
> > > 
> > > gcc -g -shared -o module-test.so module-test.c
> > > 
> > > i get this error
> > > 
> > > module-test.c:1:30: fatal error: pulsecore/module.h: No such file or
> > > directory
> > >  #include <pulsecore/module.h>
> > >                               ^
> > > compilation terminated.
> > > 
> > > i looked in /usr/include and there is no folder name pulsecore. i 
> > > tried
> > > installing development packages like libpulse-dev but that didn't 
> > > solve this
> > > issue.
> > 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > The real issue is that external modules are currently not supported at
> > all. So - please clone pulseaudio git, and create your module there.
> > You will not be able to load it into a distribution-provided
> > pulseaudio.
> > 
> > In other words, modules are used by PulseAudio not as an "extension
> > point for third parties like you", but as a convenience for
> > distributors so that they can split the package and do not require
> > libraries that are needed only for rare cases to be installed by
> > default.
> 
> How will i Compile my module? #include will still locate distribution 
> pulseaudio.
> How will i compile from git clone?

You need to add your module to the pulseaudio build system
(src/Makefile.am). Here's an example of adding a new module:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=b4d2443249c2ab31f58ed97a968db41c1fe61b49

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