[Pidgin] #334: winpidgin should build under msys

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#334: winpidgin should build under msys
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  Reporter:  rageboy          |       Owner:  datallah
      Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  closed  
  Priority:  minor            |   Milestone:          
 Component:  winpidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0     
Resolution:  invalid          |    Keywords:          
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Changes (by datallah):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => invalid

Comment:

 The instructions about not using the MinGW `make` are *not* referring to
 the MSYS `make`, but rather to the native win32 `make.exe` that was at one
 time distributed with the MinGW Runtime.

 Pidgin builds just fine under MSYS.  You'll need to create a `local.mak`
 file to override some PERL variables for the Makefiles, but that is it:
 {{{
 PERL := /c/Perl/bin/perl
 EXTUTILS := /c/Perl/lib/ExtUtils
 }}}

 The `installer` Makefile targets don't currently work because of how MSYS
 escapes '/' characters in an overzealous way - that can be fixed by
 changing to the new '-' syntax (but that will force NSIS 2.25).  I'll look
 into doing this after 2.0.0 is released.

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Ticket URL: <http://developer.pidgin.im/ticket/334#comment:4>
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