[Goodies-dev] howto begin as newbee

[Jannis Pohlmann]

On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:01:10 +0200, Martin Forsgren wrote:

> 
> > Hi!
> 
> > Am Samstag, den 02.09.2006, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Martin Forsgren:
> >> Hej hej!
> >> I am trying to make a new wavelan-plugin. To bad I need to
> >> remake my perl-version to C++ to make it as a panel.
> 
> > C++??? I wrote mine in C... and i thought there also were wrappers
> > for some scripting languages.
> 
> There are wrappers, even one for perl, but what I know it isn't
> updated to later versions of xfce, to bad.
> 
> >> However my first problem is sadly enought I cant compile any
> >> existing plugin. (thinking modifying an existing would be easier).
> >> My problem by compilation is that it requires xfce4-panel-1.0 >=
> >> 4.0.0. What does this mean. I have xfce4-panel-dev installed.
> >> I guess it can have something to do with pkgconfig, but I dont
> >> have a clue even where to start reading about it.
> 
> > in general:
> 
> > locate xfce4 | grep pc
> 
> > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkconfig/libxfce4panel-1.0.pc
> > or whatever is appropriate due to the first outputs.
> 
> I've tried it. The file was in "/usr/lib/pkgconfig". Also running
> pkg-config --list-all showed libxfce4panel-1.0.

Maybe you've Xfce SVN or any 4.4 beta release installed but your plugin
depends on the 4.2 panel (which installs a different pkg-config file)?

You can always take a look at existing 4.4 plugins in the goodies SVN at

  http://svn.xfce.org/svn/goodies/

Regards,
Jannis