[Kde-extra-gear] Adding code using KExif to the images gallery plugin

[Con Ruane]

Hi Achim,
thanks for the info.

> fyi: imagegallery is part of kipi-plugins.  kipi-plugins are discussed on
> kde-imaging mailing list.

Sorry about that I didn't notice that there was a separate contact link for
the kipi-plugins.
I have reposted to that list.

> You need to link against libkexif too.  You should have already the
> -devel pkgs installed otherwise it would have complained earlier
> about missing header files.

I didn't install the -devel package because I couldn't find one.
And it surprises me too that it compiles but doesn't link.

I'll keep trying.

Thanks
Con


On 3/24/06, Achim Bohnet <ach at mpe.mpg.de> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 March 2006 13:34, Con Ruane wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I use the ImagesGallery out of Digikam to generate galleries for my web
> > site.
> Hi,
>
> fyi: imagegallery is part of kipi-plugins.  kipi-plugins are discussed on
> kde-imaging mailing list.
>
> > I wanted to change the look of the generated html to match my site so I
> > downloaded the source code and added some hard coding to do what I
> wanted.
> >
> > I also wanted to have the exif date and time displayed under the photos
> so I
> > added some code using libkexif functions to do what I wanted.
> >
> > It took me a while to get everything compiling successfully and working
> but
> > I did succeed in the end.
>
> htmlgallery plugin, a replacement for Imagegallery is under development.
> You'll
> find it in KDE svn trunk/extragear/libs/kipi-plugins/.  At addresses the
> adoption of
> look.  Not sure about exif infos (I havn't tried the new plugin yet).



>
> > That was some time ago using SuSE 9.3.
> >
> > Now I've updated to SuSE 10.0 (fresh install) but I can't get
> ImagesGallery
> > to compile with libkexif stuff in it.
> >
> > The compile actually works, it's the link step that stops with this
> error:
> >
> > .libs/imagesgallery.o: In function
> > `KIPIImagesGalleryPlugin::ImagesGallery::createBody(QTextStream&,
> > QStringList const&, KURL const&, QString const&, QString const&)':
> > imagesgallery.cpp:(.text+0xbfcc): undefined reference to
> > `KExifData::KExifData()'
> > imagesgallery.cpp:(.text+0xbfd4): undefined reference to
> > `KExifData::~KExifData()'
> >
> > The only code I have in there at the moment for testing is the just
> > definition of a KExifData object.
>
> You need to link against libkexif too.  You should have already the
> -devel pkgs installed otherwise it would have complained earlier
> about missing header files.
>
> Achim
> >
> > #include <libkexif/kexifdata.h>
> > ..
> > ..
> > void ImagesGallery::createBody(QTextStream& stream, const QStringList&
> > subDirList,
> >                                const KURL& url, const QString&
> imageFormat,
> >                                const QString& TargetimagesFormat)
> > {
> > ..
> > ..
> >        // define KExifData object
> >        KExifData exifData;
> > }
> >
> > I think the problem is that I need to install a libkexif-devel package
> but I
> > can't find one anywhere and I don't remember doing this for Suse 9.3.
> > libkexif 0.2.2 from Packman.
> > I also tried installing libkexif from the source code (using
> checkinstall)
> > but this didn't help (could a "make install" make a differnce here?)
> > I also tried putting the libkexif tree into the kipi-plugins tree (at
> the
> > same level as the kipi-plugins folder) and generated a new configure
> script
> > using make -f Makefile.cvs. and ran configure and make.
> > When I do this libkexif is compiled and ImagesGallery compiles but again
> I
> > get the exact same linker error.
> > Where can I get a libkexif-devel package for suse 10.0 or does anyone
> have
> > any other ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Con
> >
>
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