[Users] Building Claws on Win32 (Again)

[Dustin Miller]

On Sat, 21 May 2022 15:10:39 +0100
Rosemary Lockie via Users <users at lists.claws-mail.org> wrote:

> ... I decided to ... start afresh with WLS/Debian Bulldog, ...
> 
> Now, when I ran MAKE, webkitgtk fails to build, but - according to
> the log - for a different reason, as it says it can't find 'python'!
> 
> An extract from the error log says:
> 
> [snip]
> checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
> checking host system type... x86_64-w64-mingw32
> checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
> checking for python... configure: error: You need 'python' to compile
> WebKit [endsnip]
> 
> I do have Python installed
> 
DM: Hi, Rosemary. When you say you 'have Python installed', what
exactly do you mean? Depending what you installed and how you installed
it, there may be certain python-related things that are necessary but
are not currently installed. I think this depends on whether
you're using the default install for your system and/or are using
packages to do the install(s), and the names of different packages can
also be distro-specific. As a basic hypothetical example based on what
I've observed on my current Linux Mint 20.3 system, I might be able to
run a program CoolSoft with just the 'coolsoft' package installed, but
if I want to compile / build the program I might first need to install
the 'coolsoft-dev' package. Anyway, if it were me, this is the area I
would check out first, making sure you have everything python-related
installed that you need for building Claws. HTH, ---Dustin
> 
> (Python 3.9, no earlier versions), so I'm puzzled as to why it can't
> find it? Would it be looking - literally - for python, so won't find
> (say) /usr/bin/python3.9 ?
> 
> $PATH is
> 
> /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas please?