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This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for [[FileZilla 3]] '''for Windows''' and how to compile it under [https://debian.org Debian] using [https://mingw-w64.org/ Mingw-w64]. It will take less time and is more simple than [[Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows]].
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This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for [[FileZilla 3]] '''for Windows''' and how to compile it under [http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu] or [http://debian.org Debian] using [http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW]. It will take less time and simple than [[Compiling FileZilla 3 under Windows]].
  
 
== OS version ==
 
== OS version ==
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* [http://ubuntu.com Ubuntu] 10.4 ('''recommended''')
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Any recent Linux should do the trick. For the sake of simplicity, this guide focuses on Debian(-based) distributions.
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* [http://debian.org Debian] 5.0.3
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* [http://colinux.org coLinux] with [http://sourceforge.net/projects/colinux/files/Images%202.6.x%20Debian/Debian%205.0%20Lenny/Debian-5.0r2-lenny.7z/download Debian-5.0r2-lenny]
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We strongly recommend to use [http://debian.org Debian '''12''' (Bookworkm)] or later ('''recommended''')
 
  
 
== Setting up the build environment ==
 
== Setting up the build environment ==
  
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As root, execute:
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=== Ubuntu ===
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dpkg --add-architecture i386
 
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apt update
 
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apt install automake autoconf libtool make gettext lzip xz-utils
 
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apt install mingw-w64 pkg-config wx-common wine wine64 wine32 wine-binfmt subversion git
 
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Back as normal user, execute:
 
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mkdir ~/prefix
 
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mkdir ~/src
 
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export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$PATH"
 
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export LDFLAGS="-L$HOME/prefix/lib:$LDFLAGS"
 
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export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 
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export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
 
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export TARGET_HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32
 
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wine reg add HKCU\\Environment /f /v PATH /d "`x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ -print-search-dirs | grep ^libraries | sed 's/^libraries: =//' | sed 's/:/;z:/g' | sed 's/^\\//z:\\\\\\\\/' | sed 's/\\//\\\\/g'`"
 
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<!--
 
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<p style="font-size:150%;color:#ff0000">'''Beware:''' You need to patch your MinGW runtime!</p>
 
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Note: This does not affect mingw-w64 >= v4.0.6, mingw-w64 v4.0.6 is available in Ubuntu 16.10.
 
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The version of the MinGW runtime ships with Debian based distributions has broken string conversion functions. You need to fetch the source of the mingw-64 packet and apply the following two patches:
 
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https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/2474f3904a1fbce19d96383a9633e6c2eeb427ea/
 
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https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/mingw-w64/ci/bca09678e3bfd67b2d445127280ee5a1d9d0453a/
 
  
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Without these patches, FileZilla will not work properly and will fail in obscure ways.
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Required packages
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-->
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sudo apt-get install -y mingw32 make g++ libtool bzip2 automake gettext wx-common
  
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== GMP ==
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=== Debian ===
  
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cd ~/src
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Do works as root
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wget https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.3.0.tar.lz
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  su -
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  tar xf gmp-6.3.0.tar.lz
 
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cd gmp-6.3.0
 
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CC_FOR_BUILD=gcc ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --disable-static --enable-shared --enable-fat
 
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make
 
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make install
 
  
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== Nettle ==
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Required packages
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apt-get install -y mingw32 make g++ libtool bzip2 automake gettext wx-common
  
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cd ~/src
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== Patch mingw32-runtime (only Debian) ==
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wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz
 
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tar xf nettle-3.9.1.tar.gz
 
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cd nettle-3.9.1
 
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./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
 
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make
 
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make install
 
  
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== GnuTLS ==
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If you are using Ubuntu, go to the next [[#Make libraries]] section. In Ubuntu, the patch is applied.
  
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cd ~/src
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Because the version of mingw32-runtime in Debian 5 is [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452977 broken] - Thanks [[CodeSquid]], patch mingw32-runtime package.
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wget https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.8/gnutls-3.8.1.tar.xz
 
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tar xvf gnutls-3.8.1.tar.xz
 
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cd gnutls-3.8.1
 
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./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --without-p11-kit --with-included-libtasn1 --with-included-unistring --disable-srp-authentication --disable-dtls-srtp-support --disable-heartbeat-support --disable-psk-authentication --disable-anon-authentication --disable-openssl-compatibility --without-tpm --without-brotli --disable-cxx --disable-doc --enable-threads=windows --disable-tools
 
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make
 
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make install
 
  
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== Compile SQLite ==
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=== Get source package ===
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cd /tmp
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apt-get install dpkg-dev debhelper
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apt-get source mingw32-runtime
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cd mingw32-runtime-3.13/
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debian/rules unpack-stamp
  
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  cd ~/src
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=== Patch snprintf bug ===
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wget https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-32600-00.tar.gz
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  pushd build_dir/src/mingw-runtime-3.13-20070825-1/mingwex/gdtoa/
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  tar xvzf sqlite-autoconf-3260000.tar.gz
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diff -u mingw_snprintf.c.org mingw_snprintf.c
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  cd sqlite-autoconf-3260000
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  --- mingw_snprintf.c.org        2009-09-21 02:41:31.000000000 +0000
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  ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-dynamic-extensions
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  +++ mingw_snprintf.c    2009-09-21 02:41:54.000000000 +0000
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  make
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  @@ -465,7 +465,7 @@
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  make install
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                                    len = LEN_LL;
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                                  }
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                                else
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-                                 len = LEN_LL;
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+                                len = LEN_L;
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                                goto fmtloop;
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                        case 'L':
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                                flag_ld++;
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@@ -617,6 +617,7 @@
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                                        break;
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                                  case LEN_S:
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                                        *(short*)ip = c;
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  +                                      break;
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                                  case LEN_LL:
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                                        *(long long*) ip = c;
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                                        break;
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  popd
  
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== NSIS ==
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=== Build & Install ===
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debian/rules build
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debian/rules install
  
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  cd ~/src
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=== Copy new library ===
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wget https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/nsis/nsis-3.09-setup.exe
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  mv $/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/libmingwex.a $/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/libmingwex.a.old
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  wine nsis-3.09-setup.exe /S
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  cp debian/mingw32-runtime/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/libmingwex.a $/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/lib/
  
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The above may print a lot of errors and warnings. Ignore them, check for success this way:
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== Make libraries ==
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  [ -f "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NSIS/makensis.exe" ] && echo "Success!"
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Do works as normal user in Debian.
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  exit
  
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== Compile wxWidgets ==
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=== Make working & install directory ===
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Check available space of storage.
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mkdir ~/mingw32
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mkdir /tmp/fz3
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cd /tmp/fz3
  
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  cd ~/src
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=== Setting up environment variables ===
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  git clone --branch WX_3_0_BRANCH --single-branch https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git wx3
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  export CFGPRE=~/mingw32
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cd wx3
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  export CFGOPT="--prefix=$CFGPRE --host=i586-mingw32msvc --disable-shared --enable-static"
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./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
 
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make
 
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make install
 
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cp $HOME/prefix/lib/wx*.dll $HOME/prefix/bin
 
  
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== Compile libfilezilla ==
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=== iconv ===
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wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
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tar zxvf libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz
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cd libiconv-1.13.1
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./configure $CFGOPT
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make install clean
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cd ..
  
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cd ~/src
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=== libidn ===
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  svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/tags/0.33.0 lfz
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  wget ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.17.tar.gz
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  cd lfz
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  tar zxvf libidn-1.17.tar.gz
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  autoreconf -i
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  cd libidn-1.17
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  ./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
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  ./configure $CFGOPT
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  make
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  make install clean
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  make install
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  cd ..
  
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== Compile Boost Regex ==
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=== libgpg-error ===
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wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgpg-error/libgpg-error-1.9.tar.bz2
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tar jxvf libgpg-error-1.9.tar.bz2
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cd libgpg-error-1.9
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./configure $CFGOPT --disable-nls
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make install clean
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cd ..
  
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cd ~/src
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=== libgcrypt ===
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  wget https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2
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  wget ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/libgcrypt/libgcrypt-1.4.6.tar.bz2
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  tar xf boost_1_85_0.tar.bz2
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  tar jxvf libgcrypt-1.4.6.tar.bz2
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  cd boost_1_85_0
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  cd libgcrypt-1.4.6
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echo "using gcc :  : x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ ;" > user-config.jam
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  ./configure $CFGOPT --disable-nls --disable-asm --with-gpg-error-prefix=$CFGPRE
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./bootstrap-sh
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make install clean
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  ./b2 --user-config=./user-config.jam --build-type=minimal --with-regex --prefix=$HOME/prefix install
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cd ..
  
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== Compile FileZilla ==
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=== GnuTLS ===
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wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnutls/gnutls-2.8.6.tar.bz2
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tar jxvf gnutls-2.8.6.tar.bz2
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cd gnutls-2.8.6
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./configure $CFGOPT --disable-nls --disable-cxx --disable-guile --with-libgcrypt-prefix=$CFGPRE
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make install clean
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cd ..
  
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cd ~/src
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=== wxWidgets ===
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  svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/FileZilla3/tags/3.56.0/ fz
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  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/wxwindows/wxWidgets-2.8.11.tar.bz2
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  cd fz
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  tar jxvf wxWidgets-2.8.11.tar.bz2
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autoreconf -i
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  cd wxWidgets-2.8.11
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./configure --host=$TARGET_HOST --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --with-pugixml=builtin
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  mkdir compile
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  make
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  cd compile
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# strip debug symbols
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  ../configure $CFGOPT --enable-unicode
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$TARGET_HOST-strip src/interface/.libs/filezilla.exe
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  make install clean
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  $TARGET_HOST-strip src/putty/.libs/fzsftp.exe
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  cd ../..
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  $TARGET_HOST-strip src/putty/.libs/fzputtygen.exe
 
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  $TARGET_HOST-strip src/fzshellext/64/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
 
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$TARGET_HOST-strip src/fzshellext/32/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
 
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  $TARGET_HOST-strip data/dlls/*.dll
 
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  cd data
 
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wine "$HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/NSIS/makensis.exe" install.nsi
 
  
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Voila, there's now FileZilla_3_setup.exe in the current directory.
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