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[gaim-migrate @ 14411] sf patch #1357831, from Sadrul Habib Chowdhury Looks like this was my bug (me being KingAnt). Sorry! The description from Sadrul: This is a simple fix for the following "ShowStopperBug" (from the kwiki): ========== buddy shows as online when offline * I(luke) played with this some today. when my lschiere SILC account signs on, lschiere(aim) appears on my LSchiere2 buddy list as though signing on. As far as the gaim UI is concerned, there is no SILC buddy in that contact. as LSchiere (aim) is my account, I am quite sure that it is not online, plus attempting to IM it yeilds the same result. ========== committer: Tailor Script <[e-mail]>

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)