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
Hello,
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but this is the first time I have
worked with Pidgin.
I am experiencing an error when I attempt to build Pidgin 3.0 on Windows
with MSYS2. Actually, I am only interested in working with libpurple
but it does not seem to be possible to build libpurple as
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
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
