GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 597305
Bonjour does not work on Windows
Last modified: 2020-06-06 16:31:19 UTC
1. Laptop is set up in LAN 2. Computer is set up in LAN Bonjour service on laptop is running. Bonjour service on computer is running. Open Ekiga. I expected to see "Neighbours", as stated http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Avahi The laptop did not see the computer under neighbours. The computer did not see the laptop under neighbours.
I'm pretty sure your ekiga doesn't have avahi support built in... how did you get it?
(In reply to comment #1) > I'm pretty sure your ekiga doesn't have avahi support built in... how did you > get it? Win32 Ekiga does not have avahi support built in. I asked in IRC and somebody told me to try Bonjour, and then report a bug. The wiki ( http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Avahi ) reads: You can install this technology on computers using Windows with Bonjour for Windows.
It was me. btw, what is your Ekiga version? Is it 3.2.6 as you can find here? http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Windows_Users Best regards, Yannick
(In reply to comment #3) > It was me. > > btw, what is your Ekiga version? Is it 3.2.6 as you can find here? > http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Windows_Users > > Best regards, > Yannick Yes, it is.
Installing a bonjour server on your box won't change the fact that if ekiga was compiled without bonjour support, then it won't be able to use it! Is avahi available on win32? If so, perhaps it's just a question of adding it...
So how could we advance this bug? Yannick, Julien, we should close this bug and fix the wiki page (tell that you need to compile with bonjour development headers or something like this), is that right?
The issue is: how cross-compile using with mingw using headers for this protocol? Should we use avahi? the Apple SDK for bonjour? IMHO we should ask Michael. Best regards, Yannick
Michael: "there is LLMNR ( http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb878128.aspx ) starting with Vista but it is said not to be compatible with bonjour. But I have not cared very much as I thought that Win32 Ekiga had more urgent problems. But perhaps we have advanced. I think Microsoft does not have anything compatible. So why not use Bonjour for Windows our users would have to install the service, see http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/bonjour.html#bonjourwin . There is also some source code http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/bonjour.html . I do not know however how far we will get with that." Lowering priority.
Bad news : http://avahi.org/ticket/123 It would have been so nice to use the very same code...
*** Bug 557040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ekiga is not under active development anymore: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/Infrastructure/-/issues/273 Ekiga saw its last release 7 years ago. The last code commits were 4 years ago. Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (and transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active Ekiga development again in the future.