Branch: refs/heads/master
Author: Frank Lanitz <frank(a)frank.uvena.de>
Committer: Frank Lanitz <frank(a)frank.uvena.de>
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 15:34:26 UTC
Commit: a2db1cc8e44686dc9ab03820edd8494dcebc2998
https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/commit/a2db1cc8e44686dc9ab03820edd84…
Log Message:
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Extending HACKING-file with some information about e.g. build system (autotools)
Modified Paths:
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HACKING
Modified: HACKING
125 files changed, 109 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
===================================================================
@@ -33,12 +33,12 @@ They currently are:
``--disable-cppcheck`` configuration flag) -- this test is run during
``make check``.
-These features are only here to help you writing better code: they
-are not necessarily and always right -- though they try. However
-it's highly recommended to make usage of them and fix maybe occuring
-issues before submitting a patch. If you think they reports wrong
-problems, please file a report on the appropriate place (either the
-mailing lists or the geany-plugins bug tracker).
+These features are only here to help you writing better code: they
+are not necessarily and always right -- though they try. However
+it's highly recommended to make usage of them and fix maybe occuring
+issues before submitting a patch. If you think they reports wrong
+problems, please file a report on the appropriate place (either the
+mailing lists or the geany-plugins bug tracker).
Documentation
@@ -54,10 +54,10 @@ documentation.
Markup language
###############
-The `README` is intended to be written in `Restructured Text
-<http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html>`_ (as this document is) and
-therefore should work with ``rst2html`` or similar tools. The reason
-for this is that this information is used to generate the content of
+The `README` is intended to be written in `Restructured Text
+<http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html>`_ (as this document is) and
+therefore should work with ``rst2html`` or similar tools. The reason
+for this is that this information is used to generate the content of
the `Plugins Website <http://plugins.geany.org>`.
@@ -144,16 +144,109 @@ Example::
Coding and Plugin structure
===========================
+Structure of a plugin
+---------------------
+
+Your plugin shall be structured like this:
+
+- yourplugin
+ - src/
+ - data/
+ - doc/
+
+Where you put all your source code inside the src-folder, all
+additional data like scripts should be put into a seperate
+data-folder and content for plugin documentation fit into the folder
+doc.
+
+Adding a new plugin to autotools build system
+---------------------------------------------
+
+configure.ac
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Add an entry into configure.ac for your plugin. The entry should look like
+``GP_CHECK_YOURFANCYPLUGINNAME``
+
+Makefile.am
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+Add an entry into Makefile.am where to find the sources of your plugin.
+This entry shall look like this::
+
+ if ENABLE_YOURFANCYPLUGINNAME
+ SUBDIRS += yourfancyplugin
+ endif
+
+
+build-subfolder
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+To build your plugin you will also need to add an m4-script inside
+the ``build`` subfolder of the geany-plugin sources. The file should
+be called ``yourfancypluginname.m4`` and contain the definition of the M4
+macro that checks for your plugin's dependencies and generates its
+build files, which macro is called from configure.ac::
+
+ AC_DEFUN([GP_CHECK_YOURFANCYPLUGINNAME],
+ [
+ GP_ARG_DISABLE([yourfancypluginname], [yes])
+ GP_STATUS_PLUGIN_ADD([yourfancypluginname], [$enable_yourfancxpluginname])
+ AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+ yourplugin/Makefile
+ yourplugin/src/Makefile
+ ])
+ ])
+
+
+Makefile inside your plugin folder
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+The Makefile inside your plugin folder can be seperated at least
+into two parts: The first part is located inside the root folder of
+your plugin, whereas the second one is located inside src/ of your
+plugin.
+
+
+Plugin-root
+###########
+
+The file should be called ``Makefile.am`` and contains the entry
+point for really building your plugin. The easiest version could look
+similar to this::
+
+ include $(top_srcdir)/build/vars.auxfiles.mk
+ SUBDIRS = src
+ plugin = yourfancypluginname
+
+
+src-folder
+###########
+
+The ``Makefile.am`` inside the src-Folder is containing the
+informationen how to build the sources. An example could look like::
+
+ include $(top_srcdir)/build/vars.build.mk
+
+ yourfancypluginname_LTLIBRARIES = yourfancypluginname.la
+
+ yourfancypluginname_la_SOURCES = yourfancypluginname.c
+ yourfancypluginname_la_LIBADD = $(COMMONLIBS)
+
+ include $(top_srcdir)/build/cppcheck.mk
+
+
+
I18n/l10n
---------
-Geany-Plugins is supporting localisation of your plugin. To make
+Geany-Plugins is supporting localisation of your plugin. To make
usage of it, there needs to be done:
-* Mark each string which should be translatable with the gettext macro
- ``_()`` or ``N_()`` for static strings. As an example the string
+* Mark each string which should be translatable with the gettext macro
+ ``_()`` or ``N_()`` for static strings. As an example the string
``"Hello World"`` might become ``_("Hello World")``.
-* Add files with translateable strings into ``po/POTFILES.in``. You
- should group them for your plugin as done for the other. Each files
- needs to be put into one line with complete relative path from
+* Add files with translateable strings into ``po/POTFILES.in``. You
+ should group them for your plugin as done for the other. Each files
+ needs to be put into one line with complete relative path from
plugin root directory. E.g. ``myplugin/src/myplugin.c``
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