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ejabberd-contrib is a collaborative development area for ejabberd
modules developers and users.
module developers and users.
For users
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You need to have Erlang installed.
To use an ejabberd module coming from this repository:
- Read the module specific README to see if special steps are needed
to deploy it.
- You need to have Erlang installed.
- Run "./build.sh" or "build.bat" in the root directory of the wanted
- Read the module-specific README.txt file to see if special steps are
required to deploy it.
- Run "./build.sh" or "build.bat" in the root directory of the desired
module.
- Copy generated .beam files from the ebin directory to the directory
where your ejabberd .beam files are.
- Use the configuration file examples provided in the conf dir to
update your ejabberd.cfg configuration file.
update your ejabberd.cfg or ejabberd.yml configuration file.
If during compilation of a module you get an error like:
{"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{make,all,[]},...
it means Erlang couldn't find its file make.beam
it means Erlang couldn't find its make.beam file.
In Debian and other distributions you can try to install packages like:
erlang-dev erlang-nox erlang-tools
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For developers
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The following organisation has been set-up for the development:
The following organization has been set up for the development:
- Development and compilation of module should be possible without
- Development and compilation of modules should be possible without
the ejabberd source code, as the ejabberd-dev helper module contains
include file to make compilation possible.
the include files necessary to make compilation possible.
- The module directory structure is usually the following:
README.txt: Module description
LICENSE.txt: License for the module
Emakefile: Erlang makefile to build the module (preferred way, if no
dependencies on C code, as build will thus works on Windows)
doc/: Documentation dir
src/: Source directory
README.txt: Module description.
LICENSE.txt: License for the module.
Emakefile: Erlang Makefile to build the module (preferred way, if no
dependencies on C code, as build will thus work on Windows).
doc/: Documentation directory.
src/: Source directory.
src/msgs/: Directory with translation files (pot, po and msg).
ebin/: empty (Target directory for the build).
ebin/: Empty (target directory for the build).
conf/: Directory containing example configuration for your module.
build.sh: *nix build script.
build.bat: Windows build script.
- Module developers should put in the README if the module has
requirements or known incompatibilities with other modules (for
- Module developers should note in the README.txt file whether the module
has requirements or known incompatibilities with other modules (for
example, by modifying the same main ejabberd modules).