[Users] Building Claws on Windows 10

[Thorsten Maerz]

On Mon, 2 May 2022 14:38:26 +0100
Rosemary Lockie via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 May 2022 11:42:07 -0000.
> Paul <paul at claws-mail.org> wrote: 
> 
> > On Mon, 2 May 2022 12:24:58 +0100
> > Wishful Thinking via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote: 
> >   
> > > I have cloned claws-win32-installer.git and am trying to follow the
> > > instructions in the README.
> > > 
> > > Please can someone confirm whether the instructions are for running under
> > > native Windows?  
> > 
> > Those instructions are for building the windows binary on debian (linux).  
> 
> Thank you. I don't have a pure Linux machine, but I've installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (the
> distro I'm familiar with) over Windows Linux Subsystem, and will see how I get on with
> that. :-)

If you are running into build problems, you may try to follow the
steps from the "Building in a Docker container" section
(inside your linux subsystem).
It creates a well defined build environment with known compiler
and tools versions.

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Best regards,
Thorsten