Changes between Version 66 and Version 67 of BuildingWinPidgin

Timestamp:

Dec 27, 2009, 4:18:41 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

kevdog

Comment:

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BuildingWinPidgin

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   * If you want to build the Pidgin installer, do the following (skip to the `make` command below if you chose to use the Build Environment Fetcher):
     * Download and install [http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Download NSIS]. Include NSIS to your PATH.
-      For information on the NSIS installer, visit the [http://nsis.sourceforge.net NSIS website].
+      For information on the NSIS installer, visit the [http://nsis.sourceforge.net NSIS website].[[BR]]
+      NSIS version 2.46 or greater is required to cross-compile.  If compiling NSIS from source, the [http://www.scons.org/ scons] package is a dependency.  This can usually be installed through your linux distribution's package archive.  An example of how to install the NSIS package is given below (Assuming use of the NSIS 2.46 version):
+
+      .tar.bz2 file contains latest source[[BR]]
+      .zip file contains libraries
+{{{
+$ mkdir nsis;cd nsis
+$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis-2.46-src.tar.bz2?download 
+$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis-2.46.zip?download
+$ tar -jxvf nsis-2.46-src.tar.bz2
+$ cd nsis-2.46
+$ scons SKIPSTUBS=all SKIPPLUGINS=all SKIPUTILS=all SKIPMISC=all NSIS_CONFIG_CONST_DATA_PATH=no
+$ sudo scons install-compiler
+$ cd ..
+$ sudo unzip nsis-2.46 -d /usr/local/share
+$ sudo mv /usr/local/share/nsis-2.46/ /usr/local/share/nsis 
+}}}
+      If following the above instructions, the local.mak file ([#CrossCompiling listed below]) should be modified[[BR]]
+      MAKENSIS := /usr/local/bin/makensis  
+
     * Download [http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pidgin/gtk-2.14.7-rev-a-installer.tar.gz?download gtk-2.14.7-rev-a-installer.tar.gz]
-      and extract it to `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/`. From within the new `gtk_installer directory`, run `. build.sh` (this builds the GTK+ runtime installer, which the Pidgin installer will include).
+      and extract it to `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/`. From within the new `gtk_installer directory`, run `. build.sh` (this builds the GTK+ runtime installer, which the Pidgin installer will include). **Please see [#CrossCompiling note below] if building on Ubuntu/Debian about modification of the build.sh file.
     * Download [/static/win32/pidgin-inst-deps.tar.gz pidgin-inst-deps.tar.gz] and extract under `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/win32-dev`.
   * Now you can actually build the installer.[[BR]]
@@ -155 +174 @@
   Create a `local.mak` file in the source directory root to override the Makefile variables - mine looks like this:
 {{{
+SHELL := /bin/bash
 CC := /usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-cc
 GMSGFMT := msgfmt
@@ -170 +190 @@
   If your distribution doesn't include a recent enough win32api, you can download it from the [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW site], extract it into your `win32-dev` directory, and override the `INCLUDE_PATHS` and `LIB_PATHS` variables in your `local.mak` as I have done.
 
-  If you want to build the installers, you'll need to install NSIS.  On Debian and Ubuntu, the package name is `nsis`; this will likely be different elsewhere.  In order to build the GTK+ installer as mentioned above, the `build.sh` script referenced above needs to be changed.  The line starting with `makensis.exe` needs to be changed to read:
+  If you want to build the installers, you'll need to install [#BuildthePidginInstaller NSIS].  On Debian and Ubuntu, the package name is `nsis`; this will likely be different elsewhere.  In order to build the GTK+ installer as mentioned above, the `build.sh` script referenced above needs to be changed.  The line starting with `makensis.exe` needs to be changed to read:
 {{{
 makensis -V3 -DGTK_VERSION=$gtk_version -DGTK_REVISION=$gtk_revision gtk-installer.nsi