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

[Rudi Pittman]

Anyone have any suggestions as to how to correct these compile issues?  
Should this have gone to pan-devel instead?

Thanks,
Rudi


Rudi Pittman wrote:

> 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.