Improve the C plugin tutorial and fix the property issue

 






 

 


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Add missing property to hello world plugin


    		
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Add compiling section to the C plugin tutorial


    		
    72aa8341d272048950d3ad41665ea4f7ab78dc9b

   


   


    

     
Correct the title, Fix the indentation of the example, Add `setup' to `meson build' as it's ambiguous and deprecated.


    		
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Allow the user to change the installation directory


    		
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This should probably be rephrased to something like "stand alone build system" or maybe just "building" or something. In purple3/pidgin3 …

      		
      
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While this is generally good for users, it causes all sorts of issues for packagers. Perviously plugins have checked if …

      		
      
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install directory should be configured via the --prefix argument to meson which is available via get_option('prefix'). There's no need to …

      		
      
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    This should probably be rephrased to something like "stand alone build system" or maybe just "building" or something. In purple3/pidgin3 we explicitly don't support the old setup where you could drop a plugin file in the directory and then compile it there which I believe is what you're referncing.
    
  
    
 
    

 
    
  


    
 
    
 
      

  

 
    


    

 
    

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    While this is generally good for users, it causes all sorts of issues for packagers. Perviously plugins have checked if a custom prefix was set and if not then fall back to the value in the plugin directory.
    

    I know this sounds silly, but this is a real issue for homebrew on mac and something else I can't recall right now.
    
  
    
 
    

 
    
  


    
 
    
 
      

  


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      Packagers can set $DESTDIT to install it elsewhere I think.
      
 
      

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      Setting DESTDIR as a package doesn't fix the issue with homebrew though.
      

      

      grim-catalina:~ garykramlich$ pkg-config --variable=plugindir pidgin
/usr/local/Cellar/pidgin/2.14.10_2/lib/pidgin

      

      

      Pidgin actually looks in /usr/local/lib/pidgin in homebrew for plugins not the directory that package config provides.
      

      There was some other reasoning, way back when, that DESTDIR didn't fix, which is why we recommned just installing into the prefix that was specified to the plugin's build system.
      
 
      

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    This has been sitting for 6 weeks now. Please let me know if you would like to address the issues or if this should be dropped.
    
  
    
 
    

 
    
  


    
 
    
 
      

  

 
    


    

 
    

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    install directory should be configured via the --prefix argument to meson which is available via get_option('prefix').
    

    There's no need to pull a shell environment variable in here which would break the build when not using a UNIX shell, like compiling under command prompt or power shell on windows.
    

    Generally speaking, if the prefix is set to /usr/local it should be save to override with the value from purple's pkg-config file.
    
  
    
 
    

 
    
  


    
 
    
 
      

  


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      Forgot to mention, sorry for the late review, some how I didn't notice that there was an update here.
      
 
      

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This has been superseded by /r/3237/