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[gaim-migrate @ 10669] On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 23:57, Tim Ringenbach wrote: > > relative buddy icon paths instead of absolute ones from nosnilmot. this > > should save some headaches migrating a ~/.gaim around > I think you broke something here. On start up I notice all buddy icons > are fetched again, and they only show up in my buddy list, never my > conversation window. I did break something. I think the logic of "if the old file doesn't exist, then delete the new one instead" when removing old icons isn't exactly what I meant to do. You were also correct to point out that prpls might use them directly - oscar does. Patch attached to fix both cases. Regards, Stu. 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)