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[gaim-migrate @ 4475] This is 128KB of raw kickassyness. AKA ICQ SSI. I've rewritten all the important parts of ssi.c. Things should be better. One thing I like a lot is that gaim will store the alias you assign to buddies in your server list for both AIM and ICQ. WinICQ supports this, but WinAIM doesn't. However, it doesn't seem to interfere with WinAIM, and Gaim can still use it. I dunno, I just think it's neat. Anyway, go nuts. Let me know if something doesn't work, because that's bad. 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)