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Bonjour only works on Windows2000 or newer, so we don't need to indirectly access the Net* functions. Avoid doing an unnecessary domain query to find the Domain Controller (which was causing a several second delay at startup). Also, try harder to avoid empty default names and falling back to "Purple Person".

How to build Pidgin for Windows using MinGW
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For the latest build instructions, please refer to:

http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin