[Users] Windows build question

[Andrej Kacian]

On Fri, 5 May 2017 01:22:10 +0200
Aleks <al-clawsmail at none.at> wrote:

> curl -vLO
> http://www.claws-mail.org/download.php?file=releases/claws-mail-3.15.0.tar.xz
> curl -vOL
> http://www.claws-mail.org/download.php?file=win32/claws-mail-win32-3.15.0-1.tar.bz2
> 
> tar xfvJ claws-mail-3.15.0.tar.xz
> tar xfvj claws-mail-win32-3.15.0-1.tar.bz2
> cd claws-mail-3.15.0/
> cp -avx ../claws-mail-win32-3.15.0-1/* .

I'm not sure why you're doing what you're doing here. You do not need
unpacked contents of claws-mail-3.15.0.tar.xz anywhere. Just put that
file in packages/ directory if you want, so the download.sh script,
which would download it, doesn't have to.

The tarball is later unpacked as part of the build process.

> cd packages/
> ./download.sh
> cd ../
> curl -vo po/build-cc.in
> 'http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws-win32-installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=po/build-cc.in;h=27ae24c9143559e0afefc771acec3e29b89b585a;hb=HEAD'
> curl -vo src/installer-options.ini
> 'http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws-win32-installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/installer-options.ini;hb=HEAD'
> curl -vo src/installer-setdefaultclient.ini
> 'http://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws-win32-installer.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/installer-setdefaultclient.ini;hb=HEAD'
> 
> ./autogen.sh --build-w64
> WAIT LOOONGTIME
> ###
> 
> How difficult is it to create a portable zip file?

You can get fairly good portability if you use correct claws-mail.exe
parameters and some well thought out hand-edits of certain lines in
config files.

> Is it allowed, from the license to offer the file
> claws-mail-3.15.0-1-64bit.exe for download?

As long as you explicitly state that yours is an unofficial build, I
don't see a problem.

-- 
Regards,