[Users] Claws Mail 3.18.0-1 for Windows unleashed!!

[Jonathan Boeing]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:19:58 +0200
wwp <wwp at claws-mail.org> wrote:

> Nice to see a release for Windows users, good work and congratulations
> for this first release you've made since you joined the effort!

Thanks.  It's actually the second release after 3.17.8 back in March.

> Is there a list of the plug-ins currently available (or not) to
> Windows users and eventually those who might be in a short (or less
> short) future?

The list of plugins on the Windows page is up to date:
https://www.claws-mail.org/win32/

The Windows build includes:
AddressKeeper
AttRemover
AttachWarner
BSFilter
Fancy
FetchInfo
Libravatar
LiteHTML Viewer
ManageSieve
Notification
PGP and S/Mime
RSSyl
SpamReport
TNEF Parser
vCalendar

For the 4.0.0 release, Windows loses the Fancy plugin due to WebKitGTK
dropping support for Windows:
https://www.mail-archive.com/webkit-gtk@lists.webkit.org/msg03246.html

As I understand it, the two options to get Fancy working again would be
to port and maintain WebKitGTK for Windows:
https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2017-August/029336.html

Or to port Fancy to use the WinCairo build of Webkit.  WinCairo is
64-bit only and only builds with MSVC on Windows, but they do make
pre-built binaries and dependencies available.

WinCairo does have experimental support for building with clang-cl:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171618
So dealing with C++ ABI incompatibilities might not be an issue if we
add clang support to our build system.

Either way, I think we can file Fancy for GTK3 under "less short" :)

I've looked at porting a few other plugins with mixed results:
PDF Viewer - dependencies build, and the Windows build is in progress
Mail Archiver - dependencies build, but the plugin itself needs work to
support Windows
Dillo - dependencies don't build with mingw; Dillo on Windows needs
cygwin/X11

Which leaves the unexplored plugins, by me at least, as:
AcpiNotifier
Bogofilter
Clamd
GData
mailMBOX
NewMail
Perl
Python
SpamAssassin

Regards,

Jonathan
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