[Enigmail] need help to complie enigmail on windows

[George Shuklin]

21.04.08, 10:27, "Patrick Brunschwig" <patrick at mozilla-enigmail.org>:

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> Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> >> I want to complie enigmail on windows xp sp2, using vc++ 2005, so as
> >> to learn from enigmail's source code.
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> > Enigmail is not a C++ program and cannot be compiled with Visual C++.
> > 
> > Enigmail is written in JavaScript.
> That's not quite correct ;-) The kernel of Enigmail is written in C++
> and needs VC++ on Windows for compilation (and e.g. gcc on Linux).
> - -Patrick

That's sad. VC not very open source application. MinGW (windows version of gcc) is much more preferable...

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wBR,George.