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HyperText404
HyperText404

Reputation: 21

Compiling Geary for Windows

I would like to compile the Linux-based mail client, Geary, for my Windows computer.

I'm wondering if I could compile it using a program such as MonoDevelop on my Linux machine with the target being Windows, or if I'll have to use cygwin or mingw on my Windows machine.

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3060

Answers (3)

Arty2
Arty2

Reputation: 131

Alternatively to compiling, you can run Geary on Windows 10 via the WSL. This question here lead to give it a try. It can be done, but requires many steps and it doesn’t work very well for the time being.

https://heracl.es/ephemera/2018/08/08/geary/

Upvotes: 0

Maarten Bonnema
Maarten Bonnema

Reputation: 1

Do you really need to compile it? If you have windows 10, you can run a linux environment, for instance ubuntu. Then Geary runs. I can confirm, as I have it running NOW.

There are several tutorials on how to get Ubuntu running in the WSL on Win10.

Upvotes: -3

apmasell
apmasell

Reputation: 7153

You can cross compile on Linux to Windows. There is a MinGW build for Linux. Use valac -C to produce C sources then i586-mingw32msvc-gcc to compile the sources and link against Windows DLLs of the libraries needed. Vala determines includes using pkg-config which will pick up compilation arguments from the host system. You can override this by setting PKGCONFIG_PATH to the directories where your Windows libraries' .pc files live.

Upvotes: 4

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