- #WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO#
- #WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
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- #WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD ZIP#
Once I downloaded the GTK zip, I extracted the files into pidgin-2.10.7\GTK then re-ran heat and the changes I made to the generated file.
The first msi I compiled did not include GTK, which is available with pidgin on sourceforce. Pidgin needs GTK+ in order to run, which isn't supplied with the normal downloads. All rights reserved.Ĭopyright (C) Outercurve Foundation. Like I said in my introduction, once a wxs file is configured, then all that needs to be done is run candle and light: >candle pidgin-2.10.7.wxs
This needs a product feature title setting Compiling I did a global find / replace of SourceDir\ to the location on my local disk
#WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
This needs Product name, manufacturer and version setting to relevant valuesįor the parent directory which it creates for all the components, I changed this to be the install directory, and then wrapped the components in a tag: This produces a wxs file with all the files in the directory specified, but needs some details updating: heat dir "pidgin-2.10.7/" -template product -gg -suid -sfrag To save generating by hand all the config required to install files from a directory, there is a tool supplied with wix called heat.
#WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD ZIP#
The other option is to take the pidgin-win32-bin zip file, and install all the files within this archive.Īs, Pidgin has about 700 fiiles in the archive, I initially looked at this option, until I saw suggestions of how this was bad practice to install an exe, then run it. The first is using a precompiled exe installer, and copying to the target machine, then executing silently. There are 2 options for deploying pidgin. A real tutorial is available here on .hu Deployment Options The wixobj file then needs to be compiled using light, hopefully producing a nice shiney msi file. This is then parsed using the candle program. Put some xml together in a wxs file, detailing the files to be installed, source and destination locatons. Wix is an opensource microsoft tool for creating msi files. Currently, there are no official pidgin msi files, but it is my preferred client. We already deploy updates for flash, adobe reader, java etc via msi files. A jabber service has been set up, but a client still needed to be deployed to all the end users. With its shutdown forthcoming, alternatives were needed.
LOL.The main office IM tool is currently msn messenger.
#WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD PORTABLE#
I now have a hint why he was so jealous of my version which is indeed based on the original Gaim Portable source code. It is a zipped files according to what is described in Running Windows Pidgin From a USB Drive on the official Pidgin site.ĭoh! It can't even be integrated into PortableApps launcher and have your settings (and logs) backed up by PortableApps backup utility. the interesting part is that, I've downloaded the "Portable Pidgin" zip he made. I don't really mind which one people will use, but for sure I hate people telling lies and talking bad about others when they are not sure.Īnd.
#WHAT IS THE OFFICIAL PIDGIN DOWNLOAD HOW TO#
Or perhaps his machine is already infected with keyloggers and he has no clue of how to read the antivirus scan results.Īnd just to make sure, I re-download the file from the server. Oh well, other people have virus scanners too and it is always a good idea to scan files after downloading them. I've scanned the files with ClamWin portable, Avast U3 Edition, and AVG - they are clean (with the latest antivirus database updates). If you want other people to use your work, persuade them some other way than lying. What do you mean keylogger? The only executable I compiled myself is PidginPortable.exe and the others were compressed with UPX.