Building Gaim-Encryption on Windows

Building this is a bit of a pain, especially if you haven't used Cygwin/MinGW before. If you'd prefer, check out the pre-built self-extracting installer.

Ooh, you're really gonna build it yourself! Cool...

Start with the Gaim building instructions here.

Next, you'll need a copy of the Mozilla NSS and NSPR libraries for MinGW. They are at ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nspr, and
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/security/nss/releases.

Copy the nss-3.8 and nspr-4.3 directories into your win32-dev directory.

Put the Gaim-Encryption source release into gaim/plugins.

Build/install it:

cd ~/gaim/plugins/encrypt
make -f Makefile.mingw install

There you go. It will (hopefully) work exactly the same as the Linux version.

If you want to build the installer, you will need to include several DLLs from NSPR and NSS into the gaim/win32-install-dir, before you run make -f Makefile.mingw installer in the root gaim directory.

Downloads:

Source: v 3.0: Available here
for use with Pidgin 2.0. Here are the installation instructions.

Subversion: Instructions. The CVS build should work with the current Pidgin Monotone build. If it doesn't, IM me: BillTompkins2 on AIM.

Fedora: You can find an RPM for Fedora Core here.

Mandriva: In the distribution, just "urpmi gaim-encryption"

Gentoo: In the distribution, just "emerge gaim-encryption"

Debian: In the distribution, just "apt-get install gaim-encryption".

Ubuntu: In Ubuntu's "Universe" as Gaim-Encryption.

Windows: Download the Win32 self-extracting binary. Or, if you'd like, here are some instructions on how to build it yourself.

Linux on iPAQ: Duane Toler got the plugin going on his iPAQ! Here's the info and a download.