Re: [Pan-users] Building Pan on windows

[Steve Davies]

On 7/13/06, address@hidden
<address@hidden> wrote:
> After my windows system died I needed to reload my Pan build environment.  I 
> previously had it working but had not built anything since Pan 0.98 I think.
>
> I followed the instructions in Readme.mingw with two execptions:
> 1) I had to make more changes to gmime than what the document indicated but 
> gmime did build cleanly

I found I needed to make a few more changes too. I just "fumbled
around" a little until I came up with a sane solution. Part of the
problem seemed to be that I was modifying automake source files,
rather than ".in" configure source files. I ended up doing both as
automake etc were not working.

Of course I had every intention of documenting my changes, but that
never got done. :(

> 2) Pan complained that it could not find libpcreposix.a when it was compiling 
> so I renamed libpcreposix.dll.a to libpcreposix.a

Instead of renaming the file, I changed the reference to that file
that had been added in 1) above to match the actual filename.

> Pan builds fine with those changes above, opens up, downloads groups and 
> headers but when trying to download a message it crashes with this error from 
> Windows:
> pan.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close.

Did you get all of the latest version of mingw, msys and the other
libraries? I had horrible problems until I realised that "Stable" is
not enough.

[snip]
> The pan.exe that Charles built works fine on this same system and I am using 
> gtk runtime 2.8.15.

I have built .101, .102 and .103 with no problems. I did not need any
libtool patches at-all, and they all run okay so far :)

Cheers,
Steve