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Windows Pidgin Build Environment Fetcher

Current Version: 1.8 (ChangeLog, TODO, Older Versions)
Released: March 29, 2009

About the BEF

The Windows Pidgin Build Environment Fetcher downloads the files needed to make compiling Pidgin on Windows possible. All you need in advance is a Cygwin installation with certain packages installed. You do not need to have Pidgin installed on the computer.

This script features automatic MD5 checksumming of downloaded packages, installation of required software, build environment and self updating, and the ability to download Pidgin source code packages.

Note: We will be adding support for MTN in a future release. Please see this page for the time being.

Prerequisites

You need Cygwin installed to use this script. Make sure you select the following packages (ones in bold are not selected by default):

• bash
• bzip2
• coreutils
• grep
• gzip
• make
• patch
• sed
• tar
• unzip
• wget
• zip

Usage

1. Open the Cygwin Bash Shell
2. At the prompt type "wget http://gaim-extprefs.sf.net/winpidgin-build-fetcher.sh" and press enter.
3. Type "bash winpidgin-build-fetcher.sh" and follow the directions.

Troubleshooting / Custom Usage Settings

• If you are having trouble using the default mirror that I have specified in the files list, you can override it by defining the SF_MIRROR environmental variable, as follows, or somewhere else in your environment:

  export SF_MIRROR=mymirror.

  Be sure to retain the dot at the end of the mirror name.
  
  
• If you are running MTN, you should probably define the envionmental variable PIDGIN_DEV which will trigger the script to supply versions of packages updated since the most recent release.

  export PIDGIN_DEV=1