1 How to build Gaim using MinGw
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4 Set Up Build Environment
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7 - Install Cygwin bash shell (www.cygwin.com).
9 - Install MinGw v1.1 (http://www.mingw.org)
10 Make sure to read the installation instructions. Make sure to set MinGw's
11 bin directory in your PATH (in .bash_login), before Cygwin's bin dir
12 (so that mingw's build tools are used over cygwin's).
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
20 GTK & GLIB (v 2.0.9 as of writing)
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23 $ mkdir -p ~/win32-dev/gtk_2_0/zips
25 Download the following from thw win32 download page at www.gtk.org to the
26 zips dir you just created:
28 atk-1.0.3-20020821.zip
29 atk-dev-1.0.3-20020821.zip
30 gettext-dev-0.10.40-20020904.zip
31 glib-2.0.6-20020802.zip
32 glib-dev-2.0.6-20020802.zip
33 gtk+-2.0.6-20020921.zip
34 gtk+-dev-2.0.6-20020921.zip
35 libiconv-1.7-w32.bin.zip
36 libintl-0.10.40-tml-20020904.zip
38 libpng-1.2.4-1-bin.zip
39 pango-1.0.4-20020921.zip
40 pango-dev-1.0.4-20020921.zip
44 Make sure that after unziping, the binaries (dlls and exes) have the correct
45 executable permissions (e.g. "chmod 755 iconv.dll"):
47 $ cd ~/win32-dev/gtk_2_0/zips
50 $ cp lib/libintl-1.dll ./bin
51 $ cd libiconv-1.7-w32.bin
54 $ cp localcharset.dll ../lib
57 $ cp iconv.h ../include/
58 $ cp libcharset.h ../include/
60 NOTE: If you use a more recent versions of any of these packages, you may
61 need to move files around so that they can be found when Gaim is built.
66 Download perl-5.6.1 from www.cpan.org. You can build perl56 yourself if
67 you have MS Visual C++, or you can download a win32 binary distribution
68 (I tried SiePerl successfully). In either case make sure you do the
71 $ mkdir -p ~/win32-dev/perl56
73 Copy Perl's "CORE" directory to ~/win32-dev/perl56 as well as "perl56.dll"
79 Download the dev package (aspell-15.tar.gz) from http://gaim.sf.net/win32,
80 and untar it under ~/win32-dev.
85 Download the dev package (gtkspell-2.0.3-20021223.tar.gz) from
86 http://gaim.sf.net/win32, and untar it under ~/win32-dev.
92 $ make -f Makefile.mingw install
97 $ cd ~/gaim/win32-install-dir
102 Note: If you wish to build an install exe of Gaim, then you need to install
103 NSIS from http://www.nullsoft.com/free/nsis/ making sure to place its
104 binary dir in your PATH. Then...
107 $ make -f Makefile.mingw installer
112 There is quite a good "Just In Time" debugger for MinGw:
113 http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/
117 Herman Bloggs <hermanator12002@yahoo.com>