How to compile a basic D-Bus/glib example?

Question

I\'m trying to learn how to use D-Bus with C bindings. I\'ve never used D-Bus before. I\'m following this tutorial, which I assume is the official one (Freedesktop.org). I\'ve r

Answer 1

Based on 'netcoder's' answer is the program that worked for me.

#include           // for exit()   
#include        // for dbus_*   
#include   // for dbus_g_*

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  DBusGConnection *connection;
  GError *error;
  DBusGProxy *proxy;
  char **name_list;
  char **name_list_ptr;

  g_type_init ();

  error = NULL;
  connection = dbus_g_bus_get (DBUS_BUS_SESSION,
                           &error);
  if (connection == NULL)
    {
      g_printerr ("Failed to open connection to bus: %s\n",
              error->message);
      g_error_free (error);
      exit (1);
    }

  /* Create a proxy object for the "bus driver" (name "org.freedesktop.DBus") */

  proxy = dbus_g_proxy_new_for_name (connection,
                                 DBUS_SERVICE_DBUS,
                                 DBUS_PATH_DBUS,
                                 DBUS_INTERFACE_DBUS);

  /* Call ListNames method, wait for reply */
  error = NULL;
  if (!dbus_g_proxy_call (proxy, "ListNames", &error, G_TYPE_INVALID,
                      G_TYPE_STRV, &name_list, G_TYPE_INVALID))
    {
      /* Just do demonstrate remote exceptions versus regular GError */
      if (error->domain == DBUS_GERROR && error->code == DBUS_GERROR_REMOTE_EXCEPTION)
    g_printerr ("Caught remote method exception %s: %s",
            dbus_g_error_get_name (error),
            error->message);
      else
    g_printerr ("Error: %s\n", error->message);
      g_error_free (error);
      exit (1);
    }

  /* Print the results */

  g_print ("Names on the message bus:\n");

  for (name_list_ptr = name_list; *name_list_ptr; name_list_ptr++)
    {
      g_print ("  %s\n", *name_list_ptr);
    }
  g_strfreev (name_list);

  g_object_unref (proxy);

  return 0;
}

and Makefile

file=1
sample:
    g++ -g $(file).cc -o $(file) -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include/ -ldbus-1 -ldbus-glib-1 -Wall -Wextra -lglib-2.0 -lgio-2.0 -lgobject-2.0 -lgthread-2.0 

Note: This webpage has a good D-bus example https://developer.gnome.org/gio//2.36/GDBusProxy.html