Changes between Version 72 and Version 73 of BuildingWinPidgin

Timestamp:

Feb 24, 2010, 6:43:56 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

datallah

Comment:

Update documentation to reflect "Offline" and "Online" installers

BuildingWinPidgin

@@ -117 +117 @@
     * Download [/static/win32/pidgin-inst-deps-20100223.tar.gz pidgin-inst-deps-20100223.tar.gz] and extract under `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/win32-dev`.
   * Now you can actually build the installer.[[BR]]
-    There are 3 different installers: "Normal" (with GTK+), "No GTK+" and "Debug".
-    The Makefile targets for these are `installer`, `installer_nogtk`, and `installer_debug` respectively.  To build all 3, use the `installers` target.
+    There are 2 different installers, an "Offline" installer that includes all dependencies (except spellchecking dictionaries) and the debug symbols and an "Online" installer that includes only Pidgin itself and will download the various dependencies if necessary.
+    The `Makefile.mingw` targets for these are `installer_offline`, and `installer` respectively.  To build both, use the `installers` target.
 {{{
 $ cd $PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/pidgin-<version>
@@ -130 +130 @@
   This is often useful to test against a development version of a library dependency or to override compiler flags.
 
-  This done is by overridding the various Makefile variables in a `local.mak` file in the `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/pidgin-<version>` directory.
+  This done is by overriding the various Makefile variables in a `local.mak` file in the `$PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/pidgin-<version>` directory.
   This file does not exist by default.
 
@@ -149 +149 @@
 
 == Cross Compiling ==
-  It is quite easy to cross compile Pidgin for Windows on a Linux machine.  Note that cross-compiling does '''''not''''' work properly on Debian Sid on amd64 (also called x86_64 or x64) systems--the most common failure is that the linker will die with a segmentation fault at various points.  You may have differing success or failure on other 64-bit Linux distributions.
+  It is quite easy to cross compile Pidgin for Windows on a Linux machine.  Note that cross-compiling does '''''not''''' currently work properly on Debian Sid on amd64 (also called x86_64 or x64) systems--the most common failure is that the linker will die with a segmentation fault at various points.  You may have differing success or failure on other 64-bit Linux distributions.
 
   To begin, you'll need to install MinGW. On Debian/Ubuntu, this involves installing packages `mingw32`, `mingw32-binutils`, and `mingw32-runtime`. On other distributions, the packages may be named differently.