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[gaim-migrate @ 17620] A couple patches from Lee Roach. -Delete the Perl loader link library when making clean. -Force the Tcl loader plugin to use the ActiveTcl installation. This will prevent 99.99% of the cygwin "hang on start" issues, at the cost of having the Tcl loader not work for some people - if you're one of the 5 or so people using the Tcl loader on win32, you can figure out how to fix it - maybe we'll add a faq entry. This should cut down on the frequent bug reports of gaim failing to start. 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This next paragraph is old and possibly out of date: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.