Building Claws Mail on Mac OS X with MacPorts

[Trey Sizemore]

I have seen the article here:

http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration#How_to_build_Claws_Mail_on_Mac_OS_X.3F

However, I'm curious if anyone on the list has built a recent claws-mail
on OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard with using MacPorts for the
requirements?  I have claws installed from MacPorts now, but it's no
longer being maintained, so I'd like to start doing the builds from CVS
myself going forward.

If you've done it and can provide some guidance, it would be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks!



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[Marcel van der Boom-2]

On Sat 10-Oct-2009 09:27
Trey Sizemore <trey@...> wrote:

> However, I'm curious if anyone on the list has built a recent
> claws-mail on OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard with using MacPorts for the
> requirements?  I have claws installed from MacPorts now, but it's no
> longer being maintained, so I'd like to start doing the builds from
> CVS myself going forward.
>
> If you've done it and can provide some guidance, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>

I've done exactly that and it was a pretty straightforward excercise. My
configure script is like this:

export CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib

./configure \
  --disable-trayicon-plugin \
  --disable-manual \
  --enable-ipv6 \
  --disable-dillo-viewer-plugin \
  --enable-crash-dialog

The first two lines may be optional, but I wanted to make sure
everything comes from macports.

During the configure I got a couple of messages that some libraries
were needed. Installing them through macports was as as usual.

The only thing which gave me a little scratch was compiling webkit-gtk
(for the fancy plugin) and the s/mime functionality. The latter turned
out to be a optional variant of gpgme.

Other than the above, I don't think I have done anything special

marcel

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[Derick Centeno-2]

On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Trey Sizemore <trey@...> wrote:

> I have seen the article here:
>
> http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration#How_to_build_Claws_Mail_on_Mac_OS_X.3F
>
> However, I'm curious if anyone on the list has built a recent claws-mail
> on OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard with using MacPorts for the
> requirements?  I have claws installed from MacPorts now, but it's no
> longer being maintained, so I'd like to start doing the builds from CVS
> myself going forward.
>
> If you've done it and can provide some guidance, it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks!

I wonder whether it just wouldn't be more efficient to just partition
your system so that you install Linux creating a dual boot system,
then install Claws onto Linux.  Consider this -- Apple has made a
great deal of effort to create an operating system which has been
stripped of the more powerful and useful components of Unix.  You are
trying to put back in, what they took out.

Within Linux, everything is there and what isn't there you can find
and easily build yourself without paying Apple or anyone else -
anything, as long as you've the requisite skills or can learn them.
Apple, Microsoft and any corporation has the right to make money and
charge you for accessing their products.  I've nothing against that,
but what should I help them to do something they don't wish to?  In
this situation, Claws can't run within OS X as Apple designed it.

Linux provides an easy option out of that cycle of attempting to
decipher what they intend to make difficult and expensive to discover
perpetually.  As I mentioned within Linux, the tools and components
are there.  If you install anything it would be Claws plugin extras,
some supporting packages and within a few compilations and you are
quickly done with a working version of Claws and you get to apply your
skills to more challenging and useful projects which won't be subject
to a corporation's will or policy.

Of course, your time and effort are you own.

All the best...

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[Steven Bellovin]

On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:27 AM, Trey Sizemore wrote:

> I have seen the article here:
>
> http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration#How_to_build_Claws_Mail_on_Mac_OS_X.3F
>
> However, I'm curious if anyone on the list has built a recent claws-
> mail
> on OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard with using MacPorts for the
> requirements?  I have claws installed from MacPorts now, but it's no
> longer being maintained, so I'd like to start doing the builds from  
> CVS
> myself going forward.
>
>

I've given up on CM on Mac OS -- if you can make it work well, I'd be  
very interested, since I *really* don't like Mail.App.  Some of it is  
the old version in MacPorts; some of it is the missing plug-ins; more  
of it is that it doesn't play well with the Mac environment, often due  
to gtk.


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb






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