[Users] Building Claws on Win32

[Jonathan Boeing]

On Sun, 15 May 2022 08:56:26 +0100
Rosemary Lockie via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am attempting to build Claws 3.19 for Win32 using Windows for Linux
> Subsystem and Ubuntu 20.04.
> 
> However I cannot progress further with my build because MAKE of
> gdk_pixbuf-2.42.8 is failing as it requires MESON v0.55.3 or above,
> and the most recent Ubuntu v20.04 version of Meson is 0.53.2.
> 
> Can anyone advise, please, that if I were to seek a newer version of
> Meson (using Pip3, or PPA) of any issues in doing so, as in
> "breaking" other aspects of the build?

Hi Rosemary,

The official builds use the Meson 0.56.2 package from Debian, so you
should be fine updating that far.  I'm not aware of any backwards
compatibility issues with meson, but I haven't looked very hard either.

Regards,

Jonathan