[Users] Building Claws on Windows 10

[Rosemary Lockie]

On Tue, 3 May 2022 11:53:02 +0200.
Thorsten Maerz <info at netztorte.de> wrote: 

> 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: 
> >   
> > > > 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).    
> > 
> > I've installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 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.

Thorsten,

Thank you. I've not tried to get beyond running download.sh yet, but now you mention it,
a Docker container seems a good way to go anyway! :)

Kind Regards,
Rosemary Lockie