To build this package CommonAPI and a version of libdbus patched with the marshaling patch must be available.

Instructions for making a patched version of libdbus available in /usr/local:

$ wget http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.4.16.tar.gz

$ tar -xzf dbus-1.4.16.tar.gz

$ cd dbus-1.4.16

$ patch -p1 <
/path/to/dbus-DBusMessage-add-support-for-custom-marshaling.patch

$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

$ make -C dbus 

$ sudo make -C dbus install
$ sudo make install-pkgconfigDATA

The path to CommonAPI and patched libdbus pkgconfig files must be added to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH for the entire build process.