[Users] Updating Windows version of claws-mail

[Jerry]

On Sunday, January 3, 2021 2:48 PM, Pierre A. stated:
> On Sat, 2 Jan 2021 05:38:32 -0500
> “Jerry” <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> 
> > The latest version of claws-mail is “3.17.8”. The newest Windows version is
> “3.17.4-1”. Are there any plans to update the current Windows version?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> as Claws Mail is open source, you should be able to compile the most recent
> version for yourself with gcc.  I have just done it in Ubuntu but it should be
> similar for Windows.  It took about 40 mins.  The error messages indicate
> dependencies to install.
> 
> git clone https://git.claws-mail.org/readonly/claws.git
> 
> cd claws
> 
> sudo apt install bison flex libetpan-dev sudo apt-get install gtk2.0
> 
> ./aytogen.sh
> 
> claws-mail 3.17.8git13
> 
> Using Address Book : Original stable interface
> JPilot             : no
> LDAP               : no
> gnuTLS             : yes
> iconv              : yes
> compface           : no
> IPv6               : yes
> enchant            : no
> IMAP4              : yes
> NNTP               : yes
> Crash dialog       : no
> LibSM              : yes
> DBUS               : no
> NetworkManager     : no
> Manual             : no
> Generic UMPC code  : no
> SVG support        : yes
> Config dir         : .claws-mail
> Password crypto    : gnutls
> Unit tests         : no
> Plugins
>    Built:
>             - acpi_notifier
>             - address_keeper
>             - att_remover
>             - attachwarner
>             - bogofilter
>             - bsfilter
>             - clamd
>             - dillo
>             - fetchinfo
>             - libravatar
>             - mailmbox
>             - managesieve
>             - newmail
>             - notification
>                 Features:
>                     banner
>                     command
>                     hotkeys
>                     lcdproc
>                     popup
>                     trayicon
>                 Disabled due to missing dependencies:
>                     unity/messaging-menu
>                     libnotify
>                     libcanberra-gtk
>             - rssyl
>             - spamassassin
>             - spam_report
>    Disabled:
>             - demo
>    Disabled due to missing dependencies:
>             - archive
>             - fancy
>             - gdata
>             - litehtml_viewer
>             - pdf_viewer
>             - perl
>             - python
>             - pgpcore
>             - pgpmime
>             - pgpinline
>             - smime
>             - tnef_parse
>             - vcalendar
> 
> The binary will be installed in /usr/local/bin
> 
> Configure finished, type ‘make’ to build.
> 
> I did not see any error message for disabled features, that is annoying.
> I don’t know how to improve this.
> 
> Command to install:
> 
> sudo make install

I have never tried to compile a *nix program on Windows. If the authors don’t feel it is worth updating, I guess I won’t bother either. I do wonder why they hesitate to do so, though.

-- 
Jerry
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