annotate PROGRAMMING_NOTES @ 10245:c143a3fac58d

[gaim-migrate @ 11385] Binary relocation, step one. I had a fairly long commit message, and cvs ate it and said Read from remote host cvs.sourceforge.net: Connection reset by peer I'm displeased. This is just method one, method two to follow tomorrow after I add a way to register a fallback and try to push it upstream. That way I don't have to put method 2 inside prefix.c. As for as core/ui split goes, they can either each have their own copy after the divorce is final, or the UI can use the core's. It'll work either way, since #1 finds location of the caller, and #2 doesn't work on libraries anyway. That's one advantage I forgot to mention, btw, that #1 will let a library find its own location. So, I'm sure something isn't quite right and someone will want to fix it. So they can fix it while i implement phase two. Which won't take long at all, but the autopackage guy is in bed, and I should be too. 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)