Well. It looks like I have some decent progress to report. I basically have it working. It's still not packaged nicely but it works (there are some issues, see the bottom of the post)
If you want to try is you will need:
1) git repository:
git://github.com/jimfcarroll/xbmc-multi-language-addons.git
2) swig 2.0.1 installed.
3) configure with:
./configure --enable-newswiggyaddons --enable-external-python
4) The link still fails. Copy the link line and add the python library: -lpython2.6 (or whatever version you have installed).
5) You need to add an addon by hand. In ~/.xbmc/addons/script.module.newaddon/ use the following addon.xml:
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<addon id="script.module.newaddon"
name="newaddon"
version="0.0.1"
provider-name="jiminger.com">
<requires>
<import addon="xbmc.python" version="1.0"/>
</requires>
<extension point="xbmc.python.module"
library="lib" />
<extension point="xbmc.addon.metadata">
<platform>all</platform>
</extension>
</addon>
Then, in the lib directory of the addon, you need to symbolic link to the 4 SWIG generated python files:
xbmc.py -> [pathToSource]xbmc/lib/libPython/module/generatedSWIGBindings/xbmc.py
xbmcgui.py -> [pathToSource]xbmc/lib/libPython/module/generatedSWIGBindings/xbmcgui.py
xbmcplugin.py -> [pathToSource]xbmc/lib/libPython/module/generatedSWIGBindings/xbmcplugin.py
xbmcaddon.py -> [pathToSource]xbmc/lib/libPython/module/generatedSWIGBindings/xbmcaddon.py
... and include the dummy __init__.py
6) Issues:
a) SWIG doesn't support keywords. Any script you want to try you'll need to remove the keywords from all of the function/method calls.
b) SWIG error messages suck.
c) The ListItem.setInfo method takes a dictionary as the second parameter but it must be ALL STRINGS - or you will get an incomprehensible error message (see (b)).
d) plugin.video.revision3 works since that's what I did much of my testing on (and after the required mods were made (see a and c)) but I'm sure there'll be more issues.
e) Python thread yielding isn't incorporated in most of the places it used to be. I'm still considering the right way to do this.
f) I'm still working on the Window callbacks (Player callbacks work).
g) As mentioned earlier in this thread, the chdir functionality doesn't work correctly when USE_EXTERNAL_PYTHON is set. Any script that relies on "os.getcwd" to return the directory the running script is in will not work as expected (e.g.: Apple movie trailers). I'm looking for suggestions on fixing this one.
h) Instantiating a xbmcgui.Window using the id of an existing window is currently not supported. Working on putting that back.
i) I doubt the unicode stuff works right as SWIG out of the box has very little support. I might need help with this one.
j) since I've edited this post about 5 times to add more items to this list, let me just say ... a bunch more stuff.
Again, let me know what you think.
Jim
