How to build third-party Geany plugins?

Question

After downloading and extracting Geany's JSON Prettifier, and installing yajl, the make command does raise this error:

/bin/sh: 1: pkg-config: not found
./geany_json_prettifier.c:32:25: fatal error: geanyplugin.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:16: recipe for target 'build' failed
make: *** [build] Error 1

What is left in the system's configuration or Makefile to make it work?

Update: under Lubuntu 16.04.

Please add to your question Unix version/Linux distribution you are using and version. — Rui F Ribeiro, May 07 '17 at 15:24
Does `apt install geany-plugin-devhelp` solves your problem? Not quite sure about it. — Rui F Ribeiro, May 07 '17 at 16:42
@RuiFRibeiro Not really, the error persists after this install. `JSON Prettifier` is a third-party plugin, you have to deal with it on your own. — nightcod3r, May 08 '17 at 06:56

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 26 '17 at 14:50

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Not exactly the answer, but: You can use external formatter: Edit > Format > Send Selection to > Set Custom Command like python -m json.tool

idea stolen from

answered Sep 26 '17 at 14:50

user252967

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '18 at 10:07

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Try with :

apt install libgtk2.0-dev

That's working for me

answered Feb 07 '18 at 10:07

jeff

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 16 '21 at 08:04

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using ubuntu 20.10 and geany is gtk3 oriented, libgtk2.0-dev doesn't work so install libgtk-3-dev instead:

sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk-3-dev

from here

answered Feb 16 '21 at 08:04

izzulmakin

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How to build third-party Geany plugins?

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