[Geany-Users] Relaxing geany package requirements

[Matthew Brush]

On 2016-12-07 07:43 AM, Asif Aaron Amin wrote:
> All,
>
> Thanks for the quick responses! I regenerated the configure script as
> suggested:
>
> gtk_modules="$gtk_package >= $gtk_min_version glib-2.0 >= 2.28"
> gtk_modules_private="gio-2.0 >= 2.28 gmodule-no-export-2.0"
>
> And it looks like most of this compiled!
>
> It failed here however because G_TYPE_KEY_FILE was not defined:
>   CC     libgeany_la-geanyobject.lo
>
>
> I tried hacking up a quick solution by putting this at the top of
> geanyobject.cc:
>
> #include <glib-object.h>
> #define G_TYPE_KEY_FILE (g_key_file_get_type ())
>
> but this caused a linker failure.
>

Do a search and replace of G_TYPE_KEY_FILE for G_TYPE_POINTER (all in 
geanyobject.c I think). The only reason G_TYPE_KEY_FILE is needed is 
because GObject-introspection is broken. You might need to pass 
--disable-gtkdoc-header to configure script as well.

Regards,
Matthew Brush