How to build pidgin-sipe plugin with audio and video support on ubuntu/linux mint

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Tested with pidgin-sipe-1.17.0

First of all install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install \
    libxml2-dev \
    libnspr4-dev \
    libnss3-dev \
    libgstreamer0.10-dev \
    libnice-dev \
    libpurple-dev \
    libnss3-dev \
    libglib2.0-dev

Then check where libnspr4 was installed:

sudo dpkg -L libnspr4

Then finally configure nspr paths accordingly, compile and install it:

./configure \
    --prefix=/usr \
    --with-vv \
    --with-nss-includes=/usr/include/nss \
    --with-nss-libs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
    --with-nspr-includes=/usr/include/nspr \
    --with-nspr-libs=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu 
make 
sudo make install

Hope it helps :)

If everything works fine then your Lync contact list should look like this:

pidgin with sipe-1.17.0