What branch are you on? Bitbucket removed mercurial support multiple years
ago.. Or more specifically, where did you clone pidgin from? The canonical
repository is at https://keep.imfreedom.org/pidgin/pidgin/ and the default
branch is up to date and pointing to the proper talkatu repository at
Regarding the error: it is trying to fetch talkatu repo, but the repo was
deleted, which is why you're getting a 404. This really should be reported to
the developers. It is trivial to fix: just replace (I presume in meson.build,
but am not sure, you might want to grep for the string over the
On 5/5/21 11:16 AM, DAVID MAY wrote:
> I also tried building Pidgin 2.14.4 with MSYS2. Documentation, such as
> it is, assumes a Cygwin environment but suggests MSYS (not MSYS2) can be
> used with "tweaks" to the build scripts.
You need a win32-dev directory that contains all of our
I also tried building Pidgin 2.14.4 with MSYS2. Documentation, such as
it is, assumes a Cygwin environment but suggests MSYS (not MSYS2) can be
used with "tweaks" to the build scripts.
Anyway running configure results in the following error:
...
checking for inet_aton... no
checking for
Btw, it might help if you say what exactly are you trying to achieve. You see,
if for example you just want to work on some Pidgin plugin, then I don't think
you need to compile libpurple either. Simply installing Pidgin from installation
binaries for your system should give you libpurple.
On
Disclaimer: just a random user here.
So, before anything else: I suspect you don't want the latest upstream Pidgin.
You see, latest released version is 2.14.4, and if you want to develop a
libpurple plugin, you better use that one. The 3.0 version was never released,
and devs thinking about
