The latest build docs for Windows are on www.cleardefinition.com, but I
will be putting them soon on the wiki. The ones in the source are quite
outdated, as you've already noticed. It might be easiest for you to
begin development using a Fedora Linux virtual machine, however -
building on Windows does tend to be a bit slow and picky.
Ryan
Dominic Lachowicz wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> I recommend getting the code from SVN:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/developers/download.phtml
>
> Unfortunately, there isn't much in the way of formal plugin
> documentation. The existing plugins cover a decent spectrum of
> functionality, and are useful as a reference. If you have questions or
> just want to chat us up, you can always stop bye on IRC:
> irc://irc.gnome.org/#abiword
>
> Cheers,
> Dom
>
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Andrew Buza <apt.buza@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in integrating abiword with some other software by
>> writing an abiword plug-in and I'm having some trouble getting
>> started.
>>
>> I'm working on MS windows at the moment, but plan on building whatever
>> plugin I might create on MacOSX in the future. I've downloaded the
>> source for the 2.6.0 release from SVN, but the build documentation
>> references a CVS server. I've looked at the files on CVS but they
>> don't appear to have been updated for years. I'm assuming everything
>> has switched over from CVS to SVN; is that the case? If so, are there
>> updated build instructions somewhere? I downloaded MinGW and gave
>> building it a try without success.
>>
>> Beyond that, is there any information for "3rd party" developers
>> writing plugins? There is the class/API documentation, but nothing
>> specifically about plugins. It looks like the ones distributed with
>> abiword give a good starting point anyway, but if there's more
>> information out there I might as well make use of it.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
-- Ryan Pavlik www.cleardefinition.com #282 + (442) - [X] A programmer started to cuss Because getting to sleep was a fuss As he lay there in bed Looping 'round in his head was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;Received on Thu Apr 10 00:42:19 2008
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