annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 15359:7c41ecf41614

[gaim-migrate @ 18151] Revert GtkIMHtml hacks that tried to fix gtkimhtml bugs, replace it with heuristic workaround. If you receive a message with more than 100 HTML tags strip all formatting before displaying it. Hopefully nobody has any legitimate uses for 100 HTML tags in a message. I guess we'll see in beta6... which I think we're good for now. I think that post-2.0.0 we'll wind up replacing GtkIMHtml with a legitimate HTML widget and do the Adium/Kopete "chat theme" thing. An HTML widget should be able to handle formatting more efficiently than GtkTextView. committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

For information on writing a plugin for Gaim, go
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/api/ and see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

You can also generate this documentation locally by installing
doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the Gaim
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.

This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date:
Compilation of the plugins is fairly straight-forward; there is a
Makefile in this directory that has a rule for making the .so file
from a .c file. No modification of the Makefile should be necessary,
unless if you simply want to type 'make' to have it made; otherwise,
'make filename.so' will take filename.c and make the .so plugin from
it. If you need to link in with extra libraries, you can set the
environment variable PLUGIN_LIBS to be the libraries you want to link
with.

It should be possible to compile plugins outside of the Gaim source
tree, which is a much cleaner solution.