[Pan-users] Problems compiling windows pan using http://pan.rebelbase.com/pan-windows-port.txt

[Rudi Pittman]

Hi,

I'm attempting to compile the latest beta of Pan in windows using the 
pan-windows-port.txt as a guide.  This is on a fresh install of XP.  (I 
just reinstalled it about a week ago).   If someone already has the 
latest beta compiled please let me know and I'll just grab a copy from 
them..no sense re-inventing the wheel.   Here's the problems I encountered:

2.2 LIBXML2
===========
* Sanity check: "$ pkg-config --cflags libxml-2.0" should give meaningful 
output now.
* Sanity check: "$ pkg-config --libs libxml-2.0" should also work, and include 
-lws2_32

*These don't work because pkg-config is not installed anywhere I can find*

2.4 GNOME-COMMON (only needed when building Pan or GNet from CVS)

*** You need the latest pkg-config.
*** Get the latest version of pkg-config from
*** <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/pkgconfig/>.

*So I went and downloaded pkgconfig and attempted to configure and make it...it 
gives me a page of errors on make..the last one being:

pkg.c:1386: parse error before "key"
pkg.c: In function `packages_foreach':
pkg.c:1388: `key' undeclared (first use in this function)
pkg.c:1394: `data' undeclared (first use in this function)
pkg.c:1394: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
pkg.c:1394: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
pkg.c:1397: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
pkg.c:1397: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
pkg.c:1397: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make[2]: *** [pkg.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/workarea/pkgconfig-0.15.0'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/workarea/pkgconfig-0.15.0'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2


*So then I decided I'd just use the tar-gz's and not need gnome-common....so I 
skipped to the Gnet step.

2.5 GNET

*The configure fails with "configure: error: No GLib 1.2 on this system"...
now I installed the gtk runtime and development version as per the instructions 
so not sure what the deal is there.

Thoughts and comments welcome.  I'd REALLY like to get a working copy of pan 
beta because 0.14.2 will crash repeatedly on me when opening certain messages 
and it did the same thing under Suse 9.0 which the beta corrected.