Re: [gedit-list] Tutorial On How To Build Plugins

[Jeff Johnston <jeff johnston mn gmail com>]

For sure feel free to use it however you want. If other people have comments or suggestions I am more than willing to include (or improve) it. I plan on offering a little more insight into the configure.ac and Makefile.am definitions, but I thought this was a pretty good start. 

-Jeff Johnston

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com> wrote:

Hi Jeff!

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Jeff Johnston <jeff.johnston.mn@gmail.com> wrote:

I created a tutorial that shows how to setup and build a gedit plugin. I struggled through this recently, but by looking at the gedit plugins project I was able to figure it out. I am hoping that this helps someone else get their plugin up and running a little faster.

http://code.google.com/p/codeslayer/wiki/HowToBuildGeditPlugin


Then, if someone could shed light on some things that I have not figured out.

In the "plugins/projectsmanager/Makefile.am" section I wrote that I was not able to figure out how the projectsmanager.gedit-plugin is generated from the projectsmanager.gedit-plugin.desktop.in file. Does anyone know how this is done?

Also, I am still learning how the po files work. I think the following is used to merge text and is defined in the plugins Makefile.am.

%.gedit-plugin: %.gedit-plugin.desktop.in $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(wildcard $(top_srcdir)/po/*po) ; $(INTLTOOL_MERGE) $(top_srcdir)/po $< $@ -d -u -c $(top_builddir)/po/.intltool-merge-cache

When I run it though I get the following message. Any idea on what this means?

jeff jeff-desktop:~/workspace/codeslayer/trunk$ autoreconf
plugins/projectsmanager/Makefile.am:35: `%'-style pattern rules are a GNU make extension
plugins/projectsmanager/Makefile.am:35: wildcard $(top_srcdir: non-POSIX variable name
plugins/projectsmanager/Makefile.am:35: (probably a GNU make extension)
jeff jeff-desktop:~/workspace/codeslayer/trunk$

Thanks for putting this together!  I'll wait until some of the more knowledgeable people can provide additional input, but would it be all right if I included this in the gedit documentation?

The gedit documentation is licensed under a CC-by-SA 3.0 license, and I would provide  credit to you.

Jim