Mercurial > pidgin
changeset 16532:5382c414aab1
Removing the PROGRAMMING_NOTES file, which has been merged into the wiki by
rekkanoryo. See ticket #156.
| author | Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> |
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| date | Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:31:57 +0000 |
| parents | 7bd696193402 |
| children | b33f5b606573 72e4e92f9a2c |
| files | PROGRAMMING_NOTES |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 43 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/PROGRAMMING_NOTES Fri Apr 27 19:23:34 2007 +0000 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ -Notes on keeping Pidgin, Finch, and libpurple OS independant ------------------------------------------------------------- - -General -------- -- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths - -- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf - -- Use purple_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 default translation mode. - i.e. newline -> <CR><LF> - -Paths ------ - -- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined as functions in the win32 build - 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 ----------------- - -- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the - scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. purple_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)