Package Details: purple-gowhatsapp-git 1.21.0-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/purple-gowhatsapp-git.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: purple-gowhatsapp-git
Description: A libpurple/Pidgin plugin for WhatsApp, powered by whatsmeow
Upstream URL: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp
Keywords: chat libpurple library pidgin plugin purple whatsapp
Licenses: GPLv3
Conflicts: purple-gowhatsapp
Provides: purple-gowhatsapp
Submitter: Network_Jack
Maintainer: hoehermann
Last Packager: hoehermann
Votes: 10
Popularity: 0.092486
First Submitted: 2019-11-03 21:33 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2025-12-25 19:08 (UTC)

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dreieck commented on 2026-01-03 11:13 (UTC)

Ahoj,

please fix $pkgver:

  • Add a . before the .r. Currently, $pkgver is 1.21.0r373_20251217143725. It should be 1.21.0.r373_20251217143725. (Also, considering changing _ to ..)
  • The package version in the AUR metadata is just 1.21.0. The update logic of yay does consider this to be higher than 1.21.0r373_20251217143725, always trying to update. Please make the package version in the AUR metadata to be actual one package version generated by pkgver() at some point with the same versioning scheme that the package currently uses.

Regards and thanks for the package!

hoehermann commented on 2026-01-02 22:07 (UTC)

Dear sotitrox, pidgin-hg is Pidgin 3. It is not supported by this plug-in. In case I ever start supporting it, I would create a new package called purple3-whatsmeow. Check https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/issues/54 for details.

Dear astehlik, thank you for your comment. I updated the PKGBUILD accordingly.

sotitrox commented on 2026-01-02 14:08 (UTC) (edited on 2026-01-02 14:08 (UTC) by sotitrox)

This work with pidgin-hg??

Get this error on build when pidgin-hg is present:

==> Iniciando build()...
[  5%] Generating libwhatsmeow.a, libwhatsmeow.h
[ 10%] Built target libwhatsmeow
[ 15%] Building C object glue/CMakeFiles/whatsmeow.dir/__/bridge.c.o
En el fichero incluido desde /home/user/.cache/aurutils/sync/purple-gowhatsapp-git/src/purple-gowhatsapp/bridge.c:1:
/home/user/.cache/aurutils/sync/purple-gowhatsapp-git/src/purple-gowhatsapp/bridge.h:3:10: error fatal: purple.h: No existe el fichero o el directorio
    3 | #include <purple.h> // for PurpleAccount, PurpleXfer
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~
compilación terminada.
make[2]: *** [glue/CMakeFiles/whatsmeow.dir/build.make:135: glue/CMakeFiles/whatsmeow.dir/__/bridge.c.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:205: glue/CMakeFiles/whatsmeow.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().
    Cancelando...

astehlik commented on 2025-09-18 16:32 (UTC) (edited on 2025-09-18 16:34 (UTC) by astehlik)

Go seems to install its module files by default with non writable permissions 0444.

This causes issues with the cache cleanup of AUR Helpers like yay - for example yay tries to remove ~/.cache/yay/purple-gowhatsapp-git/src/purple-gowhatsapp/build/_go/pkg/mod/google.golang.org/protobuf@v1.36.9/runtime/protolazy/protolazy.go - which fails.

I looked around a bit and other packages solve this problem by adding the modcacherw flag (see https://go.dev/ref/mod#build-commands) to the download commands (for example yay itsself: https://github.com/Jguer/yay/blob/next/Makefile#L27)

I was able to solve this in the purple-gowhatsapp-git by setting an env variable in line 31 of the PKGBUILD file:

GOFLAGS=-modcacherw cmake --build build --target download-modules

I'm not sure if this is the best solution or if this is something that should be integrated in the cmake config.

PS, thank you for your lightspeed merge of my PR and maintaining this package :)

hoehermann commented on 2022-07-13 20:25 (UTC)

Thank you for the report, sotitrox. The issue has been fixed upstream.

sotitrox commented on 2022-07-13 17:15 (UTC)

I got this in the build process

...

    go: downloading github.com/google/go-cmp v0.5.5
    go: downloading golang.org/x/xerrors v0.0.0-20191204190536-9bdfabe68543
    go: downloading github.com/mdp/qrterminal v1.0.1
    [ 23%] Generating purple-go-whatsapp.a, purple-go-whatsapp.h
    # command-line-arguments
    ./send_message.go:53:107: cannot use ts (variable of type whatsmeow.SendResponse) as type time.Time in argument to purple_display_text_message
    make[2]: *** [src/go/CMakeFiles/purple-go-whatsapp.dir/build.make:87: src/go/purple-go-whatsapp.a] Error 2
    make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:143: src/go/CMakeFiles/purple-go-whatsapp.dir/all] Error 2
    make: *** [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
    ==> ERROR: Se produjo un fallo en build().
        Cancelando...

gpc commented on 2022-03-01 14:20 (UTC)

The whatsmeow branch is now the main branch, with this PKGBUILD provided:

https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/blob/whatsmeow/PKGBUILD

sotitrox commented on 2022-02-10 21:05 (UTC)

yes, it's working, but don't work for those that activate the new beta multi-device on whatsapp, if you activate that capacity, use the "whatsmeow" branch

gpc commented on 2022-02-05 09:36 (UTC) (edited on 2022-02-05 09:38 (UTC) by gpc)

I believe this plugin currently does not work, except for a beta version using whatsmeow. See https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/issues/90 and https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-gowhatsapp/tree/whatsmeow

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