Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows
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This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for FileZilla 3 and how to compile it under Windows using MinGW. It will take some time to get everything working, but you will be able to use the build environment for other programs too.
For this guide we assume c:\dev as root directory where we install everything into.
Note to wiki contributors: Do not change version numbers on your own. The MinGW build process is extremely fragile and does break if you change things
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Setting up the build environment
This includes the compiler and the required tools to build FileZilla 3 and its dependancies. For all packages we download, you will have to download the binary version, not the source version.
MinGW
Download latest MinGW version and install it: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/Automated%20MinGW%20Installer/MinGW%205.1.6/MinGW-5.1.6.exe/download Choose c:\dev\mingw as installation directory. Select "candidate" package version and check the g++ option on the packages list.
MSYS
Download latest MSYS and install it: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/MSYS-1.0.11.exe?download Chose c:\dev\msys as installation directory. Leave all other options unchanged. During the postinstall script, please carefully answer all questions. Important: Do not skip questions with enter.
Note: Users of 64-bit Windows variants have to change the startmenu shortcut. Change it to c:\WINDOWS\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /C c:\dev\msys\msys.bat (adjust path to Windows directory as needed)
MSYS Developer Toolkit
Download and install MSYS Developer Toolkit executable: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/msysDTK-1.0.1.exe Install to c:\dev\msys as well.
Compilation flags
Start msys. Type in the following commands:
echo "export LDFLAGS=-L/local/lib" > ~/.profile echo "export CPPFLAGS=-I/local/include" >> ~/.profile exit
Double check what you entered. It will save you a few hours of frustration. If you make a typo here, everything will go fine until you try to compile FileZilla.
Autotools
Downloading
Download the following files to c:\dev\download:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.2.6a.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.64.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2
http://filezilla-project.org/codesquid/m4.exe
Start msys again and enter the following commands:
mkdir /usr/src
M4
Enter the following commands:
cp /c/dev/download/m4.exe /bin
Libtool
Start msys and enter the following commands:
cd /usr/src tar -xvzf /c/dev/download/libtool-2.2.6a.tar.gz cd libtool-2.2.6 ./configure --disable-ltdl-install --prefix= make -j3 make install
If windows 16bit error message occurs while "checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together...", close the process, don't ignore it.
Autoconf
Enter the following commands:
cd /usr/src tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/autoconf-2.64.tar.bz2 cd autoconf-2.64 ./configure --prefix= make make install
Automake
Enter the following commands:
cd /usr/src tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/automake-1.10.2.tar.bz2 cd automake-1.10.2 ./configure --prefix= make make install
Libiconv
Compile and install libiconv. Download from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.11.1.tar.gz to c:\dev\download
cd /usr/src tar -xvzf /c/dev/download/libiconv-1.11.1.tar.gz cd libiconv-1.11.1 ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static make -j3 make install
Libidn
Download ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.8.tar.gz to c:\dev\download. Type the following inside msys:
cd /usr/src tar -xvzf /c/dev/download/libidn-1.8.tar.gz cd libidn-1.8 mkdir compile cd compile ../configure --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-nls cd lib make -j3
Ignore errors and proceed with:
cd gl make -j3 cd .. make -j3 make install
gettext
Download ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/gettext-0.17.tar.gz to c:\dev\download. Type the following inside msys:
cd /usr/src tar -xvzf /c/dev/download/gettext-0.17.tar.gz cd gettext-0.17 ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static make -j3 make install
If windows 16bit error message occurs while "checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together...", close the process, don't ignore it.
Libgpg-error
Download ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.7.tar.bz2 to c:\dev\download. Type the following inside msys:
cd /usr/src tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/libgpg-error-1.7.tar.bz2 cd libgpg-error-1.7 ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-nls make -j3 make install
Libgcrypt
Download ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.bz2 to c:\dev\download. Type the following inside msys:
cd /usr/src tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/libgcrypt-1.4.4.tar.bz2 cd libgcrypt-1.4.4 ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-nls --disable-asm make make install
GnuTLS
Download ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/pub/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.3.tar.bz2 and http://filezilla-project.org/codesquid/libgnutls-config to c:\dev\download. Type the following inside msys:
cd /usr/src tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/gnutls-2.8.3.tar.bz2 cd gnutls-2.8.3 ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static --disable-nls --disable-cxx make make install cp /c/dev/download/libgnutls-config /usr/local/bin/libgnutls-config
Cleanup
cd / rm -rf /usr/src
And now you're done, you've successfully setup a build environment which can be used to compile FileZilla 3. Only dependency missing is wxWidgets, which is the topic for the next section.
Installing wxWidgets
Downloading
Download latest wxWidgets version from http://www.wxwidgets.org
Installing
We might upgrade wxWidgets often, so we will install it into it's own prefix:
mkdir -p /opt/wxWidgets mkdir ~/source cd ~/source tar -xvjf /c/dev/download/wxWidgets-2.8.10.tar.bz2 cd wxWidgets-2.8.10 mkdir compile cd compile ../configure --prefix=/opt/wxWidgets --enable-unicode --disable-shared make make install
Remark: If you want to run FZ3 on Windows ME or older, you have to replace --enable-unicode with --disable-unicode. But there is no guarantee that FileZilla will work properly without unicode support.
Setting environment variables
Type the following inside msys:
echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/opt/wxWidgets/bin"' >> ~/.profile echo 'export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/wxWidgets/lib' >> ~/.profile source ~/.profile
And that finishes the wxWidgets installation. Lets move on to installing NSIS.
Installing NSIS
Download and install Unicode NSIS from http://www.scratchpaper.com
Make sure you get the Unicode version and not the Ansi one.
Installing Subversion
Download http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/1.4.5-win32/apache-2.0/svn-win32-1.4.5.zip
Extract the archive using Explorer to c:\dev\download
Copy the contents of c:\dev\download\svn-win32-1.4.5 to c:\dev\msys
Use the following command inside msys to check if it's working:
svn --version
Compiling FileZilla 3
Download FZ3 from SVN
Type the following inside msys:
cd ~/source svn co http://filezilla.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/filezilla/FileZilla3/trunk FileZilla3
Generate configure
Type the following inside msys:
cd FileZilla3 ./autogen.sh
Compile FileZilla 3
Type the following inside msys:
mkdir compile cd compile ../configure --prefix=/opt/FileZilla3 make
The resulting executable will be quite big due to debugging information. You can remove the debug info with the strip command:
strip src/interface/.libs/filezilla.exe strip src/putty/.libs/fzsftp.exe strip src/putty/.libs/fzputtygen.exe
Generate installer
If using the Unicode version of NSIS, you need to convert the file COPYING into UTF-16:
cat COPYING | iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 > COPYING~ mv COPYING~ COPYING
Rightclick compile/data/install.nsi in Explorer and use "Compile NSIS Script" from context menu.
Troubleshooting
If you run into problems, please make sure you've followed each step exactly how it is explained and that you haven't missed any steps along the way.
If step "make -j3" of building of gettext fails with error "ar.exe: hash.o: No such file or directory" (the file gets deleted while building libxml), delete file "/usr/src/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/hash.lo" and run "make -j3" again. The same goes for error "ar.exe: error.o: No such file or directory": delete file "/usr/src/gettext-0.17/gettext-tools/libgettextpo/error.lo" and run "make -j3" again.
