annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 12024:e67993da8a22

[gaim-migrate @ 14317] I strongly suspect CruiseControl is going to yell at me for this. A voice chat API, GUI + mediastreamer. This is what I'm using for Google Talk. This doesn't actually do anything at all. There's no code in the Jabber plugin yet to use this API (although it Works For Me). All it will do is compile and link. If you're lucky. To build this, you should install oRTP from Linphone, Speex and iLBC (also from linphone, I believe). To not build this, ./configure --disable-vv. Most of the configure.ac and Makefile.am hackery was lifted right out of Linphone with a few modifications. It seems to work if you have everything installed or if you --disable-vv. I haven't really tested not having everything installed and not --disabling-vv. It's kinda funky to include all of mediastreamer in the source tree like this, but linphone doesn't build it as a separate library. I'll probably wind up writing them a patch to build it as a .so so we can link it dynamically instead. This code certainly isn't finished. It'll adapt as I progress on the Google code, but it's certainly of more use here in CVS than in my personal tree. 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)