Windows build

[Youness Alaoui]

Hi again,

So I've finished my windows build and had a couple of issues along the way.
Here are the issues I had along with their fixes :

1 - The generate_gtk_zip.sh script tries to download some stuff from
pidgin.im over https but for some reason I was having certificate
verification issues. I checked the certs for the website though and they
are valid, so it might just be my wget version being old and/or not
recognizing the CA. Anyways, I added --no-check-certificate to the wget
args in that script to fix it. I figured since the SHA1 is checked anyways,
so it shouldn't matter. You'll probably not want to include this change
upstream though

2 - I had a few compilation errors : "ws2tcpip.h is not compatible with
winsock.h. Include winsock2.h instead" This is caused by the inclusion of
<windows.h> before <winsock2.h> because windows.h will include winsock.h
and it causes a conflict when ws2tcpip.h gets included. I had to move the
includes so that ws2tcpip.h gets included before windows.h is included.
I've attached a patch for that.

3 - The resulting binaries, once installed wouldn't run because of a
missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll. Turns out it's some mingw gcc library that is
needed. I'm not sure if it was because my gcc was version 4.8.1 instead of
the 4.7.2 you suggest, but I just added the -static-libgcc option to the
LD_HARDENING_OPTIONS variable in libpurple/win32/global.mak and that fixed
it (probably a better idea though to add it to the DLL_LD_FLAGS in
global.mak and the LDFLAGS in Makefile.mingw instead of the
LD_HARDENING_OPTIONS variable.

That's all there was! Thanks for the great BuildingOnWin instructions, they
were very detailed and extremely helpful in getting started.

Thanks,
Youness.



On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Youness Alaoui <
kakaroto at kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote:

> ok.... see, now I feel dumb! :-$
>
> I used https://launchpad.net/pidgin-windev to get the environment setup
> for MSYS/Mingw (cygwin just didn't want to work) and when I had missing nss
> libraries, I thought I had to build them myself. Didn't realize the
> makefile was looking in the wrong folder since the pidgin-windev script
> downloaded nss-3.15.4-nspr-4.10.2 dependency but 2.10.11 was looking for
> the libs in nss-3.17.1-nspr-4.10.7 directory.
> Anyways, my issue in building them may have been due to having VS 2008
> instead of VS 2010 (I had a unresolved __imp___environ), but I wasn't
> looking for help on how to get them compiled anyway :)
> Thanks a lot Daniel! I can now finish my build :)
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Daniel Atallah <daniel.atallah at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Prebuilt NSS binaries are already available (linked to from the
>> https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin page).
>>  * https://developer.pidgin.im/static/win32/nss-3.17.3-nspr-4.10.7.tar.gz
>> for the latest version
>>  * https://developer.pidgin.im/static/win32/nss-3.17.1-nspr-4.10.7.tar.gz
>> for the version that came with 2.10.11
>>
>> Each of those has a corresponding .asc GPG signature (signed by DE890574)
>> that you can download as well.
>>
>> It's hard to say what the cause of your problems building NSS is without
>> more information.
>>
>> -D
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 1:20 PM, Youness Alaoui <
>> kakaroto at kakaroto.homelinux.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to build Pidgin for Windows (to include the patch for issue
>> #14917) and I'm stuck at trying to get the NSS libraries to build. Is it
>> possible for someone who has them built already to zip the directory and
>> upload it for me somewhere ?
>> >
>> > p.s: Yes, I followed these instructions
>> https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinNSS but it doesn't seem to
>> work as I keep getting errors. It seems I'm having a CRT issue at the
>> moment when trying to link the resulting nspr.lib file.
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Youness.
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
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>> > Devel at pidgin.im
>> > https://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel
>>
>
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