Re: [anjuta-devel] Trying to contribute to language-support-cpp-java: how to build and install separately?

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Edward,

Le 01/11/2010 09:40, Edward Brinkmann a écrit :
> I tried creating a "Project
> from existing sources" and selecting the folder of this plugin from the
> anjuta sources, but this led to makefile errors, probably because this
> plugin is tied in with the rest of the anjuta source.

This will not work. This options is used to import an already existing 
autotools project in Anjuta. It roughly only creates a file with .anjuta 
extension in your project directory so Anjuta can recognize this 
directory as a project directory. It works only on a complete project 
not on a part and as Anjuta already has an .anjuta file it's useless in 
this case.


> I also tried
> creating a new Anjuta Plugin project and copying all relevant files from
> the language-support-cpp-java plugin over, replacing the default ones
> the project had created. This eventually installed, but now every time I
> start Anjuta I get a message that the plugin failed to load because of
> an unknown symbol, which are some random characters and digits.

This option is used to create a new Anjuta plugin, you cannot overwrite 
a few files and expect that it will work fine.


> Is there a separate source package for this plugin somewhere?

No.

> How can I build the plugin separately so I can add features to it?

There is nothing plan to do this. The easiest solution is to get the 
source of Anjuta and change the plugin inside Anjuta tree. It's better 
to get the sources using git, so you can synchronize with the master 
branch at any time. If you plan to do some complex changes, it is even 
better to create a branch and work in it.

Else, if you really want to develop your plugin as a separate project, 
it's possible but you need to understand how autotools is working. You 
need to write a file named configure.ac in your project directory and a 
Makefile.am in each directory of your project. You can look at the 
anjuta-extras project which include several plugins outside Anjuta project.


Regards,

Sébastien