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[gaim-migrate @ 4283] So I made all them versions be the likes of winaim 5.1.3036. This includes changing the ssi family/module version from 1 to 3. This caused the SNAC flag 0x8000 to pop up in a few places, so I made a change to rxhandlers.c that should take care of this. This should allow you to add @mac.com buddies to your buddy list, as well as get rid of the PleaseUpgrade000 buddies. It should also reduce your risk of cancer by 5-10%. Hopefully this won't break anything. Everything seems to be ok to me. Baaaaah. 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.

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)