[Enigmail] need help to complie enigmail on windows

[Patrick Brunschwig]

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

That's not my fault and not my favorite solution either. Mozilla
requires VC++ (Express). In my opinion the setup you need to compile on
Windows is terrible and quite difficult to maintain, especially if
Thunderbird 2 needs VC++ 6.0 and Thunderbird 3 needs VC++ 2005.

As far as I know, it's also possible to compile Mozilla applications
with MinGW; however, it's not fully supported, and official releases are
built with VC++.

- -Patrick
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