Building on Windows

Note that this section is only relevant for developers.

These instructions are simply a continuation of the ones provided by pidgin. Start by setting up a built pidgin source tree in $PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/win32-dev/pidgin-2.10.11.

See: https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/BuildingWinPidgin

Download and extract glib:

• Download: glib-dev_2.28.8-1_win32.zip
• Download: gettext-runtime-dev_0.18.1.1-2_win32.zip
• Download: zlib-dev_1.2.5-2_win32.zip
• Extract all zips to $PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/win32-dev/glib-2.28.8

Download and extract json-glib:

• Download: json-glib-0.14.tar.gz
• Extract to $PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/win32-dev/json-glib-0.14

Compile the plugin:

$ cd $PIDGIN_DEV_ROOT/purple-facebook #-<version>
$ ./update  # not required for dist tarballs
$ make -f Makefile.mingw install
$ cp win32-install-dir/plugins/libfacebook.dll C:/Program Files/Pidgin/plugins  # alternatively: Program Files (x86)