gajim-plural/win/README.md

Windows Installer

We use msys2 for creating the Windows installer and development on Windows.

Development

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Download msys2 (msys2-x86_64-xxx.exe) and follow the install instructions on the msys2 startpage (Important!)

• Fork the master branch on dev.gajim.org
• Execute C:\msys64\msys2_shell.cmd -mingw64
• Run pacman -S git to install git
• Run git clone https://dev.gajim.org/USERNAME/gajim.git
• Run cd gajim/win to end up where this README exists.
• Execute ./dev_env.sh to install all the needed dependencies.
• Now go to the git root dir cd ..
• Launch Gajim ./launch.py

Build Gajim / Creating an Installer

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Follow the steps in the Development section, but instead of ./dev_env.sh execute ./build.sh.

You can supply a git tag ./build.sh [git-tag].

Or dont supply it, then current HEAD is build.

Both the installer and the portable installer should appear in C:\msys64\home\USER\gajim\win\_build_root.