Pidgin Windows Compile - inet_aton error - PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!

[Daniel Castro]

this might be a dumb question but

2009/2/28 Daniel Atallah <datallah at pidgin.im>

> 2009/2/27 Sec <secq.002 at rediffmail.com>:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying to compile pidgin on windows using cygwin (v 2.5.1, also
> > tried v2.5.3) according to the instructions at
> > http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin
>
why would you want to do that if there's a windows installer provided on the
website?

>
> >
> > I keep getting several errors on sametime.c
>
> This is probably because you're trying to build an older version of
> pidgin with the latest dependencies - editing the meanwhile path in
> libpurple/win32/global.mak to point to the current location of the
> meanwhile headers (it should be a slightly different path) should take
> care of this.
>
> >
> > So next I tried to disable unwanted protocols using
> > $ MSGFMT=/home/sm/win32-dev/gtk_2_0 ./configure with-dynamic-prpls=
> >
> > But now I get error message saying
> > inet_aton not found
>
> You're going about this wrong, you can't build a native win32 version
> with the configure script.
>
> -D
>
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