[Geany] Geany Lua Plugin 0.1

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

On 9/6/07, Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> This is amazing, great work!

Thanks, it wouldn't have been possible without a great editor
like Geany, and all your hard work on the plugin system!


> I have Gtk+ 2.8, and GTK_MESSAGE_OTHER isn't defined
> (also for 2.6). Also Geany requires 2.6, maybe you
> meant >= 6. So I just commented out the #if and #endif lines,
> so it would build.

OK, in that case I guess it should be GTK_MINOR_VERSION<=8.
I developed the plugin on a Gtk+ 2.10 system and I didn't even notice
the missing define until I tried compiling the Windows DLL using 2.6.

Really, I only wanted to keep the dialogs as generic-looking as possible,
and using GTK_MESSAGE_OTHER on 2.10 gets rid of that silly light bulb icon.

Is there some other simple way to keep the dialogs from displaying an icon?


> Also, the plugin ABI version may change before the Geany 0.12 release,
> so unfortunately you might need to recompile the plugin binaries.

No problem, there will likely be some changes and/or bug fixes to the
plugin as well.


> how do you build 'universal' .so's for Linux, and how are
> they limited (e.g. glibc, kernel version)?


I just built it with the supplied Makefile, and I can't even
make a guess as to how "universal" it is, but my system looks
something like this:
 SuSE-10.2 - kernel-2.6.18
 gcc-4.1.2 - libc-2.5-25
 glib-2.14.0 - gtk+-2.10.14
 Lua-5.1.2

Hopefully that works for a lot of people, but no doubt there
will still be some who will need to compile their own.


I'm also interested to know how the Win32 DLL works for other users.
It was cross-compiled on the same machine, but I had some problems
getting a "geany.exe" cross-compiled to test it with. I think my
MinGW environment isn't well enough isolated from the Linux tool
chain as it should be.


> Anyway thanks for this plugin :)


Thanks for your feedback!

 - Jeff