[Users] Building CM on Windows 11 with MSys2 MinGW

Enan Ajmain 3nan.ajmain at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 02:46:52 CET 2022


On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 10:56:13 -0700
Jonathan Boeing <jonathan at claws-mail.org> wrote:
> You want the claws-win32-installer repo
> https://git.claws-mail.org/?p=claws-win32-installer.git;a=summary
> The build instructions are in the README, and I'd recommend building

I don't know if you read my full post, but I already tried that:
> >   • Try building 'Claws Mail for Windows'
> >     • Download claws-mail-win32-4.1.1-1.tar.xz
> >     • Follow README
> >     • Error in `autogen.sh`: `docbook2html` not found
> >     • Search for `docbook2html` in Msys repository
> >     • Learn that `docbook2html` belongs to `docbook-utils` in
> >       Arch/Ubuntu repositories
> >     • Learn that `docbook-utils` doesn't exist in Msys repo
> >     • Abandon hope of building CM in Windows

> The build instructions are in the README, and I'd recommend building
> from Debian 11 (a VM is fine) rather than Msys2.

I have _not_ tried cross-compiling from Linux, tho. So I'll try that.
Thanks.

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