Thank you. I started playing around with compiling geany and geany plugins from the git source but after some false starts I realized that several of the plugins did not build on my Rocky Linux 9 system, presumably to dependencies missing. I was too lazy to figure out all of the dependencies needed so I deleted the version of geany and geany-plugins from git I just compiled, reinstalled both geany and geany-plugins from the repository so I am back where I started.
Tomorrow I will look at writing this "separate" new plugin based on the HelloWorld sample and go from there without touching the editor and already-installed plugins.
However, a couple of things I need to be sure on before proceeding:
- I need the <geanyplugin.h> header file. Am I correct in that I need to clone the github geany-plugin git repository to have access to that? And I need to have the geany source code from github to have access to geany.pc?
- I saw that the source code on github is the yet-to-be-released version 2.1 of geany, I have to assume that when I clone the source from github for my own plugin I need to make sure it is the 2.0 tag, not the very latest source, correct?
- When I compiled geany and then geany-plugins from github I could not get the ./configure step to work correctly, specifically pkg-config kept complaining it could not find geany.pc and I had double-, and triple-checked, that I had added the correct directory to PKG_CONFIG_PATH but no go. After many tries I was able to run ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-geany-libdir=/usr/local/lib, a reference to which I found on the internet. The README file for geany-plugins further suggest I could use --with-geany-prefix=... but that option was not recognized. Could this be an error in the README file?
- After reinstalling geany and geany-plugins from my OS repository I was back where I started and tried to run gcc -c HelloWorld.c -fPIC `pkg-config --cflags geany` from the directory where I had saved the HelloWorld.c sample. That failed due to pkg-config, presumably not finding geany.pc again and now I am giving up for today.
Pointers around any other gotchas appreciated!
On Fri, 2024-09-13 at 11:25 +1000, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Thank you! Modifying that code would require me to build the entire codebase, or? If correct, would a plugin be an alternative approach? My understanding is that plugins could simply be downloaded and then become available to geany itself, or?
Classbuilder _is_ a plugin. But it is built as part of Geany build so
its probably more complicated to figure out how to do it separately if
you are going to modify that.
You could write your own plugin based on classbuilder.c and only need
On Thu, 2024-09-12 at 10:29 +1000, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
Using geany 2.0 on Rocky Linux 9. I am spending a lot of time using Symfony and could see value in having some custom functions implemented. I just came across Create Class/PHP Class and would like to do something quite similar but for Symfony and to my specifications.
How would I go about that? I have no experience writing anything for geany so I am not sure where to start. For instance, is the Create Class/PHP Class code available somewhere and I could use that as a base for tweaking and then have e.g. Create Class/Symfony in my editor?
Pointers/suggestions most welcome!
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