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[gaim-migrate @ 16943] Get rid of this thread stuff. You can read the whole saga at http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201791 Basically we were working around some complicated library interactions between d-bus and newer, threaded versions of gnome-vfs. But the d-bus guys were awesome enough to make our working around unnecessary I'm seeing the following error printed to the console when I click on on the Send To menu in conversation windows, but I get this error with or without these threading changes. I'm not sure what's up with that. I should point out that our dnsquery.c stuff is calling g_thread_init() for both Unix and Windows now (it didn't used to do that on Unix) The error is: GLib-GObject: gsignal.c:1713: handler `982' of instance `0xc6d960' is not blocked 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)