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Contents 1 Preparing Dependencies 2 Build Steps 2.1 Getting Started 2.2 Configuration 2.3 Building and Packaging

Preparing Dependencies

• Get an even-minor-version (like 2.2.5) zip of GNUTLS from http://josefsson.org/gnutls4win/ and unzip it.
• In the lib directory, open every .la file and replace "/home/jas/gnutls4win/inst" with "/mingw" - no quotes. Also, remove any instances of " -L../../../src/gnutls-2.2.5/lib/.libs" at the beginning of dependency_libs strings.
• Overlay the unzipped, fixed files (that is, the bin, include, lib, and so on directories) on your mingw tree.
• You will also need to overlay: a very recent (2.16.3 or newer) version of glib and glib-dev

Build Steps

Getting Started

• Download the libsoup source from [1] and the patch from AbiWord Bug #11639, and apply the patch, placed inside the untarred source dir, using

patch -p1 < patch-name.diff

Configuration

• In an MSYS shell in the location where you untarred the source, run

./configure --enable-ssl --prefix=/mingw

Building and Packaging

• In the same msys shell, run

make
make DESTDIR=/c/binaries/libsoup-2.4.1 install

• Change to the binary directory above and find the binaries

cd /c/binaries/libsoup-2.4.1/mingw/bin

• Strip the binaries

strip *

• Now, zip up the contents of the c:\binaries\libsoup-2.4.1\mingw folder.