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It will take some time to get everything working, but you will be able to use the build environment for other programs too.
It will take some time to get everything working, but you will be able to use the build environment for other programs too.
For complete MSYS2 system and all needed dependencies installed, you will need 7GiB free space on your disk.


'''Note to wiki contributors: Do not change version numbers on your own. The build process is somewhat fragile and does break if you change things'''
'''Note to wiki contributors: Do not change version numbers on your own. The build process is somewhat fragile and does break if you change things'''
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=Installing the MSYS2 environment=
=Installing the MSYS2 environment=


Download the 64bit MSYS2 installer and install it in a convenient location: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/msys2/files/Base/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20150512.exe/download msys2-x86_64-20150512.exe]
Download the 64bit MSYS2 installer and install it in a convenient location: [https://repo.msys2.org/distrib/x86_64/msys2-x86_64-20230318.exe msys2-x86_64-20230318.exe]


=Installing the compiler toolchain=
=Installing the compiler toolchain=
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===First update===
===First update===
Start the MSYS2 shell
Start the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell
  pacman -Syu
  pacman -Syu
close MSYS shell, and maybe you will need rebase (Google for details, just run a autorebase.bat in C:\msys64).
close MSYS2 shell. Repeat until there are no more updates.


===Install tools and compiler toolchain===
===Install tools and compiler toolchain===


Start MSYS2 shell, execute the following command to install the necessary packages:
Start MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell, execute the following command to install the necessary packages:


  pacman -S base-devel msys2-devel mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain  
  pacman -S autoconf automake libtool make mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git svn
pacman -S svn git curl wget
pacman -S ca-certificates


Execute the following to work around some most-annoying bugs in the toolchain:
Execute the following to work around some most-annoying bugs in the toolchain


  # Fix missing platform prefix for windres
  # Fix missing platform prefix for windres
  [ -f /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe ] || ln -s /mingw64/bin/windres.exe /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
  [ -f /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe ] || ln -s /mingw64/bin/windres.exe /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
  [ -f /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe  ] || ln -s /mingw32/bin/windres.exe /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
  [ -f /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe  ] || ln -s /mingw32/bin/windres.exe /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
# Even when statically linking to libstdc++, it still tries to dynamically link to lib(win)pthread. On top of it, libtool is too
# stupid to recognize the semantics of -Wl,-Bstatic. This leaves one option: Removing the dynamic import libraries.
rm /mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libpthread.dll.a
rm /mingw32/i686-w64-mingw32/lib/libwinpthread.dll.a
rm /mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libpthread.dll.a
rm /mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/lib/libwinpthread.dll.a


== Setting up the environment==
== Setting up the environment==
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Execute the following commands:
Execute the following commands:
  mkdir ~/prefix
  mkdir ~/prefix
  echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
  echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
  echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.profile
  echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.profile
  echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.bash_profile
  echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export LC_ALL=C' >> ~/.bash_profile


Restart the MSYS shell.
Restart the MSYS2 MINGW64 shell.


=Building dependencies=
=Building dependencies=
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  cd ~
  cd ~
  curl -O https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz
  curl -O https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.2.1.tar.xz
  tar xf gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz
  tar xf gmp-6.2.1.tar.xz
  cd gmp-6.0.0a
  cd gmp-6.2.1
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-fat
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
  make && make install
  make && make install


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  cd ~
  cd ~
  wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz
  wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
  tar xf nettle-3.1.1.tar.gz
  tar xf nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
  cd nettle-3.1.1
  cd nettle-3.7.3
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-fat
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
  make && make install
  make && make install


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  cd ~
  cd ~
  wget http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz
  wget https://zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz
  tar xf zlib-1.2.8
  tar xf zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz
  cd zlib-1.2.8
  cd zlib-1.2.13
  ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --static
  LDSHAREDLIBC='' ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" -u=GNU
  make && make install
  make && make install


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  cd ~
  cd ~
  wget ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.4/gnutls-3.4.4.1.tar.xz
  wget ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.7/gnutls-3.7.2.tar.xz
  tar xf gnutls-3.4.4.1.tar.xz
  tar xf gnutls-3.7.2.tar.xz
  cd gnutls-3.4.4.1
  cd gnutls-3.7.2
  ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-static --disable-shared --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-included-libtasn1 --disable-doc --disable-guile --without-p11-kit --enable-local-libopts --disable-nls
  ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-included-libtasn1 --disable-doc --disable-guile --without-p11-kit --enable-local-libopts --disable-nls --with-included-unistring --disable-tests
  make && make install
  make && make install
# The __declspec(dllimport) is needed for DLLs, but we're linking statically. It thus results in undefined references. Remove it.
sed -i 's/__declspec(dllimport)//' "$HOME/prefix/include/gnutls/gnutls.h"


==Building SQLite==
==Building SQLite==


  cd ~
  cd ~
  wget https://sqlite.org/2015/sqlite-autoconf-3081101.tar.gz
  wget https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-3250300.tar.gz
  tar xf sqlite-autoconf-3081101.tar.gz
  tar xf sqlite-autoconf-3250300.tar.gz
  cd sqlite-autoconf-3081101
  cd sqlite-autoconf-3250300
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-static --disable-shared
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
  make && make install
  make && make install


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  cd ~
  cd ~
  svn co https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets/branches/WX_3_0_BRANCH wx3
  git clone --branch WX_3_0_BRANCH --single-branch https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git wx3
  cd wx3
  cd wx3
  ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-static --disable-shared --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --enable-unicode --without-libtiff --without-libjpeg --with-expat=builtin --with-libpng=builtin
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-unicode --enable-printfposparam --without-libtiff --without-libjpeg --with-expat=builtin --with-libpng=builtin
make && make install
 
==Building libfilezilla==
 
cd ~
svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/trunk libfilezilla
cd libfilezilla
autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
  make && make install
  make && make install


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  cd ~/filezilla
  cd ~/filezilla
  autoreconf -i
  autoreconf -i
  ./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-pugixml=builtin LDFLAGS="-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++"
  ./configure --with-pugixml=builtin
  make
  make


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  strip src/fzshellext/64/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
  strip src/fzshellext/64/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
  strip src/fzshellext/32/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
  strip src/fzshellext/32/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
strip data/dlls/*.dll


==Building the installer==
==Building the installer==
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=== Installing NSIS ===
=== Installing NSIS ===


Download and install Unicode NSIS from http://www.scratchpaper.com
Download and install NSIS '''3''' from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
 
Make sure you get the Unicode version and not the ANSI one.


=== Compile the installer script ===
=== Compile the installer script ===

Latest revision as of 05:56, 15 August 2024

This documentation explains how to setup a build environment for FileZilla 3 and how to compile it under Windows using msys2. Msys2 is a cygwin environment. These instructions require you to run a 64bit Windows.

It will take some time to get everything working, but you will be able to use the build environment for other programs too.

For complete MSYS2 system and all needed dependencies installed, you will need 7GiB free space on your disk.

Note to wiki contributors: Do not change version numbers on your own. The build process is somewhat fragile and does break if you change things

Installing the MSYS2 environment[edit]

Download the 64bit MSYS2 installer and install it in a convenient location: msys2-x86_64-20230318.exe

Installing the compiler toolchain[edit]

FileZilla's shell extension needs to be build both for 32bit as well as 64bit, hence we're going to need compilers for both 32bit and 64bit.

Tools and compiler[edit]

First update[edit]

Start the MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell 

pacman -Syu

close MSYS2 shell. Repeat until there are no more updates.

Install tools and compiler toolchain[edit]

Start MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit shell, execute the following command to install the necessary packages: 

pacman -S autoconf automake libtool make mingw-w64-i686-toolchain mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain git svn

Execute the following to work around some most-annoying bugs in the toolchain 

# Fix missing platform prefix for windres
[ -f /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe ] || ln -s /mingw64/bin/windres.exe /mingw64/bin/x86_64-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
[ -f /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe  ] || ln -s /mingw32/bin/windres.exe /mingw32/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe

Setting up the environment[edit]

Execute the following commands: 

mkdir ~/prefix
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/prefix/bin:$HOME/prefix/lib:/mingw64/bin:/mingw32/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$HOME/prefix/lib/pkgconfig"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'export LC_ALL=C' >> ~/.bash_profile

Restart the MSYS2 MINGW64 shell.

Building dependencies[edit]

Building GMP[edit]

cd ~
curl -O https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-6.2.1.tar.xz
tar xf gmp-6.2.1.tar.xz
cd gmp-6.2.1
./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
make && make install

Building Nettle[edit]

cd ~
wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/nettle/nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
tar xf nettle-3.7.3.tar.gz
cd nettle-3.7.3
./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-fat
make && make install

Building zlib[edit]

cd ~
wget https://zlib.net/fossils/zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz
tar xf zlib-1.2.13.tar.gz
cd zlib-1.2.13
LDSHAREDLIBC= ./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" -u=GNU
make && make install

Building GnuTLS[edit]

cd ~
wget ftp://ftp.gnutls.org/gcrypt/gnutls/v3.7/gnutls-3.7.2.tar.xz
tar xf gnutls-3.7.2.tar.xz
cd gnutls-3.7.2
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --with-included-libtasn1 --disable-doc --disable-guile --without-p11-kit --enable-local-libopts --disable-nls --with-included-unistring --disable-tests
make && make install

Building SQLite[edit]

cd ~
wget https://sqlite.org/2018/sqlite-autoconf-3250300.tar.gz
tar xf sqlite-autoconf-3250300.tar.gz
cd sqlite-autoconf-3250300
./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make && make install

Building wxWidgets[edit]

cd ~
git clone --branch WX_3_0_BRANCH --single-branch https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git wx3
cd wx3
./configure --build=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static --enable-unicode --enable-printfposparam --without-libtiff --without-libjpeg --with-expat=builtin --with-libpng=builtin
make && make install

Building libfilezilla[edit]

cd ~
svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/libfilezilla/trunk libfilezilla
cd libfilezilla
autoreconf -i 
./configure --prefix="$HOME/prefix" --enable-shared --disable-static
make && make install

Building Filezilla[edit]

Download FileZilla[edit]

cd ~
svn co https://svn.filezilla-project.org/svn/FileZilla3/trunk filezilla

Building FileZilla[edit]

cd ~/filezilla
autoreconf -i
./configure --with-pugixml=builtin
make

Stripping debug symbols[edit]

strip src/interface/.libs/filezilla.exe
strip src/putty/.libs/fzsftp.exe
strip src/putty/.libs/fzputtygen.exe
strip src/fzshellext/64/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
strip src/fzshellext/32/.libs/libfzshellext-0.dll
strip data/dlls/*.dll

Building the installer[edit]

Installing NSIS[edit]

Download and install NSIS 3 from http://nsis.sourceforge.net/

Compile the installer script[edit]

Right click data/install.nsi in Explorer and use "Compile NSIS Script" from context menu.

Troubleshooting[edit]

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.

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