[Users] Building Claws on Win32 (Again)

[Rosemary Lockie]

On Sat, 21 May 2022 11:29:02 -0400.
Ed <autek at comcast.net> wrote: 

> On Sat, 21 May 2022 21:18:20 +0600
> Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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'!  
> 
> Just my thoghts, on any Debian based system when I plan on building
> from source::
> 
> sudo apt-get build-dep (name of package).
> 
> Brings in what you need to build. CM has quite a lenghty list.

Ed,

Thank you for pointing out the build-dep option of apt-get. Useful!

But FAOD, one does have to have packages it knows about already (from repositories in
sources.list) for it to work? 

Kind Regards,
Rosemary Lockie