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author Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im>
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1 How to build Gaim using MinGw
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2 =============================
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4 Set Up Build Environment
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7 - Install Cygwin bash shell (www.cygwin.com).
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9 - Install MinGw v1.1 (http://www.mingw.org)
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10 Make sure to read the installation instructions. Make sure to set MinGw's
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11 bin directory in your PATH (in .bash_login), before Cygwin's bin dir
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12 (so that mingw's build tools are used over cygwin's).
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14 Install LIBs, DLLs and headers used by GAIM
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17 Assuming you have the gaim sources in ~/gaim, you will need to do the
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20 GTK & GLIB (v 2.0.9 as of writing)
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23 $ mkdir -p ~/win32-dev/gtk_2_0/zips
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25 Download the following from thw win32 download page at www.gtk.org to the
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26 zips dir you just created:
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28 atk-1.0.3-20020821.zip
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33 gtk+-2.0.6-20020921.zip
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35 libiconv-1.7-w32.bin.zip
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37 libjpeg-6b-bin.zip
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41 tiff-3.5.7-bin.zip
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44 Make sure that after unziping, the binaries (dlls and exes) have the correct
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45 executable permissions (e.g. "chmod 755 iconv.dll"):
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47 $ cd ~/win32-dev/gtk_2_0/zips
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48 $ unzip -d .. "*.zip"
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49 $ cd ..
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50 $ cp lib/libintl-1.dll ./bin
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51 $ cd libiconv-1.7-w32.bin
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52 $ cp iconv.exe ../bin
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53 $ cp iconv.lib ../lib
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54 $ cp localcharset.dll ../lib
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55 $ cp iconv.dll ../lib
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56 $ cp iconv.dll ../bin
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57 $ cp iconv.h ../include/
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58 $ cp libcharset.h ../include/
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60 NOTE: If you use a more recent versions of any of these packages, you may
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61 need to move files around so that they can be found when Gaim is built.
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63 Perl56
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66 Download perl-5.6.1 from www.cpan.org. You can build perl56 yourself if
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67 you have MS Visual C++, or you can download a win32 binary distribution
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68 (I tried SiePerl successfully). In either case make sure you do the
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69 following:
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71 $ mkdir -p ~/win32-dev/perl56
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73 Copy Perl's "CORE" directory to ~/win32-dev/perl56 as well as "perl56.dll"
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74 and "perl56.lib".
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76 Aspell-15
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79 Download the dev package (aspell-15.tar.gz) from http://gaim.sf.net/win32,
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80 and untar it under ~/win32-dev.
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82 Gtkspell 2.0.3
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85 Download the dev package (gtkspell-2.0.3-20021223.tar.gz) from
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86 http://gaim.sf.net/win32, and untar it under ~/win32-dev.
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88 Build Gaim
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91 $ cd ~/gaim
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92 $ make -f Makefile.mingw install
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94 Run Gaim
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97 $ cd ~/gaim/win32-install-dir
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98 $ ./gaim.exe
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100 That's it..
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102 Note: If you wish to build an install exe of Gaim, then you need to install
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103 NSIS from http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/ making sure to place its
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106 $ cd ~/gaim
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107 $ make -f Makefile.mingw installer
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109 Debugging
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112 There is quite a good "Just In Time" debugger for MinGw:
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113 http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/
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116 Happy Gaiming...
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117 Herman Bloggs <hermanator12002@yahoo.com>
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