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[Gaim-commits] SF.net SVN: gaim: [17267] web/htdocs/win32/build.php
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From: <dat...@us...> - 2006-09-13 20:51:42
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Revision: 17267
http://svn.sourceforge.net/gaim/?rev=17267&view=rev
Author: datallah
Date: 2006-09-13 13:51:37 -0700 (Wed, 13 Sep 2006)
Log Message:
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Update the build instructions.
Modified Paths:
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web/htdocs/win32/build.php
Modified: web/htdocs/win32/build.php
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--- web/htdocs/win32/build.php 2006-09-13 18:02:08 UTC (rev 17266)
+++ web/htdocs/win32/build.php 2006-09-13 20:51:37 UTC (rev 17267)
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
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<p>
-Download the <a href="http://gaim-extprefs.sourceforge.net/bef.shtml">WinGaim Build Environment Fetcher</a> script. Follow the instructions on the website to fetch and install most of the needed build dependencies. The script can fetch Gaim's source code from either Subversion or a source distribution; you will be prompted to choose which you'd like to use.
+Download the <a href="http://gaim-extprefs.sourceforge.net/bef.shtml">WinGaim Build Environment Fetcher</a> script. Follow the instructions on the website to fetch and install most of the needed build dependencies. The script can fetch Gaim's source code from either Subversion or a source distribution; you will be prompted to choose which you'd like to use.<br/>
+Note that this script is sometimes out of date, in which case you will need to perform some of the manual steps in addition.
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@@ -32,7 +33,9 @@
<li>Install the <a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> Bash shell. Make sure to select Unix file mode during setup. Also make sure you install bash, bzip2, coreutils, gawk, grep, gzip, make, patch, sed, subversion, tar, unzip, and wget (several of these are selected by default).</li>
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<p>
-Install <a href="http://www.mingw.org">MinGW v3.1 or higher</a>.<br/>
+Install the MinGW "current" packages from the <a href="http://www.mingw.org">MinGW site</a>.<br/>
+The easiest way to install these is to use the MinGW Installer linked to from the main site.<br/>
+Specifically, you will need gcc-core 3.4.2, binutils 2.15.91 and the win32api 3.6 (or newer).<br/>
You will need to set MinGW's bin directory before Cygwin's in your PATH.<br/>
For Example (You can add the following to <code>~/.bash_login</code>):
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@@ -41,17 +44,18 @@
<code>export PATH=/cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin:$PATH</code>
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-<p>You do not want to use any of Cygwin's build tools, with one exception; you need to use Cygwin's make utility. If typing <code>which make</code> produces MinGW's make utility, then just rename the <code>make.exe</code> in the MinGW bin directory to something else, so that cygwin's make utility will be used instead. This shouldn't be a problem with recent versions of MinGW.</p>
+<p>You do not want to use any of Cygwin's build tools, with one exception; you need to use Cygwin's make utility. If typing <code>which make</code> produces MinGW's make utility, then just rename the <code>make.exe</code> in the MinGW bin directory to something else so that cygwin's make utility will be used instead. This shouldn't be a problem with recent versions of MinGW.</p>
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+<? /*
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Download the latest version of the <code>Windows API</code> from the MinGW <a href="http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml">download page</a> (at least <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/w32api-3.3.tar.gz?download">3.3</a>). Extract this into your MinGW directory structure (<code>tar -xvzf /path/to/w32api-3.3.tar.gz -C /cygdrive/c/MinGW</code>) to upgrade the installed API.
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+*/ ?>
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-The following instructions were written under the assumption that you checkout Gaim from the cvs repository to <code>~/gaim</code> and that you install all of Gaim's build dependencies under <code>~/win32-dev</code> (the point being that the gaim and win32-dev directories should be on the same level).
+The following instructions were written under the assumption that you checkout Gaim from the Subversion repository to <code>~/gaim</code> and that you install all of Gaim's build dependencies under <code>~/win32-dev</code> (the point being that the gaim and win32-dev directories should be on the same level).
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@@ -114,7 +118,7 @@
If you want to build the Gaim installer, do the following (skip to the <code>make</code> command below if you chose to use the WinGaim Build Environment Fetcher):
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-Grab and install <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis-2.08.exe?download">NSIS v2.0.8</a>. Include NSIS to your PATH.<br/>
+Grab and install <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download">NSIS</a>. Include NSIS to your PATH.<br/>
For info on the NSIS installer, visit the <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">NSIS website</a>.
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@@ -134,5 +138,5 @@
<h2>Debugging</h2>
<p>
-There is a quite good <b>Just In Time</b> debugger for MinGW: <a href="http://mefriss1.swan.ac.uk/~jfonseca/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/">drmingw</a>. You can download it <a href="drmingw.exe">here</a>.
+There is a quite good <b>Just In Time</b> debugger for MinGW: <a href="http://jrfonseca.planetaclix.pt/projects/gnu-win32/software/drmingw/index.html">drmingw</a>. You can download it <a href="drmingw.exe">here</a>.
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