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I am no expert, but I think your licensing is not compatible with Pidgin/libpurple.

From what I understand, GPL code can call BSD code, but not the other way around. Therefore as Pidgin and libpurple are under GPL, plugins must be GPL as well.

I managed to build the project using recent Xcode. From there the installation procedure is not clear. I manually copied ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData/Pidgin_MacOS_Integration-dfzhbrtqfeopwxdtrkyrvgpzfkfo/Build/Products/Debug/Pidgin MacOS Integration to ~/.purple/plugins/macos-integration.so.

After that I could load the plugin within Pidgin and it seemed to work fine but after quitting, Pidgin crashes on every start. I have to delete the plugin (or disable it in prefs.xml) to get Pidgin running again.

When running pidgin from command line the output is:

> pidgin
Initialization
Load
selfPtr: Optional(0x00007fc66e47f140)
Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value
Illegal instruction: 4

When the buddy list is in focus, none of the menus in the menu bar have the "Settings" entry. Normally this would be under "Extras". I noticed that it is under "Pidgin" when I focus a chat window, though.

Hi,

I found your project when was trying to write gtk-osx-integration for the pidgin myself. I am currently fixed few bugs in osx version (e.g. broken status icon) + compiled number of plugins (skype, facebook) and thinking to release standalone dmg version. I think we can join efforts, as i dont think that brew is a best place for it. I did +- same for the gimp/osx - https://github.com/samm-git/gimp-osx-package

Let me know what do you think please.