annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 15539:7ae72b7c02b1

sf patch #1640011, from Celso Pinto Patch for gaim.spec that fixes dependencies on SUSE Add line breaks to Evan's NEWS entry sf patch #1639901, from Saleem Abdulrasool Fix the build failure of the Mono example dlls due to the Mono API change Show "(experimental)" next to the enable-mono option when calling "./configure --help" sf patch #1644019, from good ol' Ka-Hing Cheung "fix compiling on gtk 2.4. xmppconsole.c is the culprit. gtk_combo_box_get_active_text is defined in gtk 2.6 but not 2.4." Sun apparently doesn't like when void functions return the return value from another void function. For example: void func1(void) { printf("hi"); } void func2(void) { return func1(); /* this line causes a warning */ }

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)