Struggling with compilation of pidgin for windows

[April Kontostathis]

Well, as the saying goes, if I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at 
all!

The link (below) was still not quite enough.  I deleted the whole mingw 
directory and redownloaded and installed from the website.  Victory! (I 
think).

Everything seemed to compile and I have a pidgin.exe in 
C:\devel\pidgin-devel\pidgin-2.7.1\win32-install-dir

Hooray!

The compile process did produce one error:

cp ./../win32-dev/pidgin-inst-deps-20100315/exchndl.dll ./win32-install-dir
cp: cannot stat `./../win32-dev/pidgin-inst-deps-20100315/exchndl.dll': 
No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

Is this anything I need to worry about?  I don't have a 
/win32-dev/pidgin-inst-deps-20100315/ directory at all.

Thanks very much for all your help and for your quick response to my 
questions!

April


On 10/21/2010 4:28 PM, Daniel Atallah wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:52, Kontostathis, April
> <akontostathis at ursinus.edu>  wrote:
>> Thanks for the tip.  Using the full Mingw seems to have helped.
>>
>> I am making progress.  Currently it is not finding the standard c/c++ include libraries (stdio.h, locale.h, etc.), but that is a start  (at least it is running something now!).  Will keep plugging away at it.  If you have any insight on the include problem, please let me know!
>
> I'm afraid you've been a little unlucky in this process (mainly
> because nobody else had tried to set up a new mingw gcc installation
> since sourceforge moved stuff around).
>
> I've fixed all the links in the wiki now - thanks for bringing the
> breakage to our attention.
>
> Your current problem is because the "full" mingw package, while
> containing everything needed for gcc, doesn't contain the win32-api.
> You'll need to also download and extract that
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/BaseSystem/RuntimeLibrary/Win32-API/w32api-3.14/w32api-3.14-mingw32-dev.tar.gz/download)
> into the same directory as you extracted the mingw package.
>
> -D