annotate PLUGIN_HOWTO @ 14988:41ced1c9ba29

[gaim-migrate @ 17767] Ari Pollak traced down a memory leak to the account menuitems not being cleaned up by gtk_container_remove(). It turns out that there is an additional reference somewhere which is preventing the menuitem from being destroyed - deryni tracked it down to gtk_accel_label_set_accel_widget() in gtk_image_menu_item_new_with_label() - we will be reporting the bug to the GTK folks tomorrow. This fixes the leakage; gtk_widget_destroy() is what really should be used in this situation anyway. 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This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date: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.