compiling bonjour on mingw from 2.0.2 source tarball

Etan Reisner pidgin at unreliablesource.net
Fri Jun 29 18:13:57 EDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:37:25AM -0700, David Byron wrote:
<snip>
> It makes sense now.  The dnssd.lib in the Bonjour SDK is a native MSVC
> library.  I converted it following the instructions here:
>
> http://www.mingw.org/mingwfaq.shtml#faq-msvcdll
>
> and the reimp tool here:
>
> http://mywebpage.netscape.com/yongweiwu/reimp_new.zip
>
> reimp dnssd.lib
>
> >From there, the bonjour protocol DLL links fine with mingw.
>
> Hopefully this will help someone down the road.
>
> -DB

I didn't have to do any of that to get pidgin compiled with Bonjour at
work, unfortunately I can't really help beyond that, as while I can get
pidgin to build on Windows how it does that is still mostly black magic to
me.

	-Etan




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