claws-mail/INSTALL

Installation
============

This program requires GTK+ 1.2.6 or higher to be compiled.

This program is developed on Debian GNU/Linux (woody/sid)
(Linux 2.4.x + glibc 2.2), so it is possible not to work correctly
on the other environment.

It is confirmed to work on the following environments:

Linux

o Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid) (glibc 2.2.x)
o Debian GNU/Linux testing (woody) (glibc 2.2.x)
o Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) (glibc 2.1.3)
o Kondara MNU/Linux (glibc 2.1.x)
o Kondara MNU/Linux 1.2
o Kondara MNU/Linux 2.0
o Vine Linux 1.1 (glibc 2.0.x + libwcsmbs)
o Vine Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x) (Intel, PPC)
o Vine Linux 2.1
o Vine Linux 2.1.5
o Laser5 Linux 6.0 / 6.2 / 6.4 (glibc 2.1.x)
o TurboLinux 4.0 (glibc 2.0.7 + libwcsmbs)
o TurboLinux 6.0 (glibc 2.1.2)
o TurboLinux 7.0 (glibc 2.2.x)
o Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version1.0
o Miracle Linux for PostgreSQL Version1.0
o Miracle Linux for Samba Version1.0
o RedHat Linux 5.2 (glibc 2.0.7)
o RedHat Linux 6.0
o RedHat Linux 6.1 + Helix GNOME (glibc 2.1.x)
o RedHat Linux 6.2 / 6.2J (glibc 2.1.x)
o RedHat Linux 7.0 / 7.0J / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3
o LinuxPPC2000 + Yukikaze(Japanization kit)
o Linux2000G (Intel / PPC)
o HOLON Linux 2.0 (Intel / PPC)
o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x)
o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 3.0 (glibc 2.1.x)
o LinuxPPC Q4 2000 (glibc 2.1.x)
o Linux MLD4
o Linux MLD5
o Plamo Linux 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2.x / 3.0-alpha
o Slackware 7.0 / 7.1 / 8.0
o Linux Mandrake 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 8.0 / 8.1
o SuSE Linux 6.3 (glibc 2.1.2)
o SuSE Linux 6.4
o SuSE Linux 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3
o OpenLinux 2.3 (glibc 2.1.1 -> 2.1.3)
o Caldera OpenDesktop 2.4
o Caldera Workstation 3.1
o Conectiva Linux 4.0 / 5.0 / 7.0 / 8.0
o Vector Linux 1.5
o Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.2.1)
o Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 (PowerPC)
o ASP Linux 7.2 (glibc 2.2.4)
o Redmond Linux (Lycoris)
o Gentoo Linux 1.x

BSD

o FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4/4.5/4.6-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
o NetBSD 1.4.2
o NetBSD 1.5 + XPG4DL
o NetBSD 1.5.1 / 1.5.2
o OpenBSD 2.7
o OpenBSD 2.8 (i386)
o OpenBSD 2.9 / 3.0 / 3.1
o BSD/OS 4.0.1

Other commercial Unix

o Solaris 2.5 / 2.5.1 / 2.6
o Solaris 7 / 8
o IRIX 6.3 / 6.4 / 6.5 6.5.8m
o HP-UX 10.20 / 11.0 / 11i
o Tru64 Unix 5.0 (OSF1 V5.0)
o SCO UnixWare 7
o Mac OS X 10.1.4 (Darwin 5.4) + XDarwin (without XLocale support) + libxpg4

Others

o Windows (MSVC + GTK+ for win32) (in progress)

Build it
========

Please make sure that gtk-devel and glib-devel (or similar) packages are
installed before the compilation (you may also require flex (lex) and bison
(yacc)).

To compile and install, just type:

% ./configure
% make
% su
Password: [Enter password]
# make install

Additional libraries
====================

I recommend you to install gdk-pixbuf or gdk_imlib library before installing
for built-in image view support, and compface library for X-Face support.

You can get compface utilities and library from the following location:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/

Sylpheed supports US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, and EUC-JP by default.
If you want other character set / encoding (such as UTF-8, KOI8-R, and GB2312)
to be supported, you have to install libjconv, which is a wrapper for
iconv(). You can obtain it from the following location:

  http://www.kondara.org/libjconv/index.html

If you want to enable SSL support, append the option
--enable-ssl after ./configure (you need OpenSSL).

If you want to enable IPv6 support, append the option
--enable-ipv6 after ./configure.

If you want to enable GnuPG support, you need GPGME 0.2.3 or later, and
GnuPG 1.0.6 or later. You can get them from the following location:

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/alpha/gpgme/
  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/pub/gcrypt/gnupg/

and append the option --enable-gpgme after ./configure.

WARNING: the GnuPG support is still in the development stage, and it
         may not work correctly. I suggest never to use a real key.
         Please use sample keys.

For other options, refer to ./configure --help .


If the installation of Sylpheed failed, check all needed libraries are
correctly installed. If it still failed, please send bug report to:

  Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>