Is the Jessie repo build broken?

[jjakim]

Xwiimote code compile on Jessie:
sudo apt-get install xwiimote
[played with hcitool]
[played with xwiishow list]
[played with xwiishow 1]
[ played with sudo xwiishow 1 - to get rid of the warning in the application]
So all this stuff works.

What I REALLY wanted - exposure to an API so I could USE the data for myself (in Perl) - seemed to elude me, until I found

xwiimote-bindings (dvdhrm) !

git clone ...xwiimote-bindings
./configure (no such file...)
./autogen.sh
[both had things missing - I think this is where I fell down the rabbit hole...]
While trying to compile, I found missing/unknown parts so I installed these prerequisites, compile, repeat. (no libxwiimote, no swig)
sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf
sudo apt-get install libwiimote-dev
sudo aot-get install swig
FINALLY - it compiled. I can Make.... no I can't. (no Python.h)
sudo apt-get install python-dev
Fails with XWII_ABS_NUM (and a whole lot more...) undefined.

Only one note (Issue 3) seemed to relate. And I see that xwii_abs_num is defined in xwiimote.h (at least in the source, remember I loaded from the repository (version issue?) The 'solution' in #3 was to go back unplug everything and hand-compile wiimote...does this mean the build in the repo is broken? Am I missing something?

[barnabuskev]

Have a look at my install instructions for python. It might help. https://github.com/barnabuskev/wiicop

[marthjod]

@jjakim I also had to uninstall the Jessie repo-provided xwiimote (whose xwiimote.h lacks at least XWII_ABS_NUM) and manually build and install xwiimote before being able to build xwiimote-bindings. Thanks for the pointer, I guess ;)

[cipitaua]

Hello, I'm on ubuntu devel, I have manually compiled xwiimote, and I get errors during compilation of xwiimote-bindings (see attached log). Any suggestion? Thanks in advance

log.make.txt

[cipitaua]

never mind, I've managed to compile by manually compiling also xwiimote, instead of using distro packages