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Newb to Building Gaim 2.0

2007-01-05
2013-01-14
  • JiveMasterT

    JiveMasterT - 2007-01-05

    I need to build gaim for Windows from source for a project and I was wondering if there was a guide on doing this.  I have never done this before.  I assume I can build it using something like Microsoft C++ Express or something like that right?  Any help would be greatly appriciated.

     
    • Corbin Hoenes

      Corbin Hoenes - 2007-01-07

      I am also new to gaim and interested in building gaim, well actually just libgaim.  Here are some instructions:

      http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/build.php

      Now I haven't tried building, but could someone advise if these instructions are all necessary just to build the libgaim library?

       
      • Lee Roach

        Lee Roach - 2007-01-07

        There are likely a couple downloads you could skip, but for the most part building libGaim requires everything that building gtkGaim requires, so I'd try to stick as close to the instructions as possible.

         
    • Corbin Hoenes

      Corbin Hoenes - 2007-01-07

      Thanks Lee the instructions work well so I'm good. 

      JiveMasterT, I just built it following the instructions in the link above no Visual Studio or anything it just builds everything using gcc. 

      I did have one hiccup using the wingaim-build-fetcher.sh script.  For some reason if I tried to checkout a tagged version from Subversion it appended /gaim on the end of the tag so it would execute a command like:

      svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gaim/tags/v2_0_0beta5/gaim ./gaim

      that tag doesn't exist, so I just manually executed

      svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svn/gaim/tags/v2_0_0beta5 ./gaim and it worked.

      Then I was able to cd ./gaim/libgaim and just run make -f Makefile.mingw install and it built libgaim nicely.

       
    • JiveMasterT

      JiveMasterT - 2007-01-08

      Thanks, I'll have to mess with this now.  I appriciate it.