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VMime

Introduction

VMime is the library we intend to use in Mail2Voice Next. It supports emails protocols such as IMAP and SMTP. Visit http://vmime.org for more informations.

Compiling

GNU/Linux (Ubuntu)

Prerequisites

Packages needed:

  • git
  • cmake
  • build-essential
  • pkg-config
  • libgsasl7
  • libgsasl7-dev
  • libgnutls-dev
  • libssl-dev
  • sendmail
  • doxygen

One can install all the stuff needed with the following command:

sudo apt-get install -y git cmake build-essential pkg-config libgsasl7 libgsasl7-dev libgnutls-dev libssl-dev sendmail doxygen

Building

git clone https://github.com/kisli/vmime.git
mkdir vmime/build
cd vmime/build
cmake -DVMIME_BUILD_SAMPLES=OFF -DVMIME_SHARED_PTR_USE_BOOST=OFF -DVMIME_SHARED_PTR_USE_CXX=ON -DVMIME_SENDMAIL_PATH=/run/sendmail -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE ..
make
sudo make install

Windows (MSYS + MinGW64)

Prerequisites

  1. Download and install MinGW64 from sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/).
    1. Use the following settings:
      1. Version: latest (6.2.0 on 2016-09-21)
      2. Architecture: x86_64
      3. Threads: win32
      4. Exception: seh
      5. Build revision: 1
    2. And install it on “C:\” (it will create a mingw64 directory)
  2. Extract the msys folder to “C:\”
  3. Run C:\msys\msys.bat, it will open a unix-like terminal
  4. From this terminal, run: sh /postinstall/pi.sh
    1. Answer “y” for the two first questions.
    2. Enter the path to your mingw64 installation (C:/mingw64) in our case. Make sure to use “/” instead of “\”.
    3. It should “Normalizing your MSYS environment”.
  5. Download and install CMake (https://cmake.org/download/)

Preparing dependencies

Compiling GSASL
  1. Download GSASL from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsasl/ (latest version is 1.8.0 on 2016-09-21) and extract files.
  2. Open C:\msys\msys.bat
  3. Then type the following commands :
cd /path/to/your/libgsasl_src_dir/ (i.e. /c/Users/MrNobody/dev/libgsasl-1.8.0/)
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/path/to/your/libgsasl_src_dir/dist
make
make install
Get other dependencies

Fortunately, the Winbuilds project offers some precompiled dependencies we need. You can the download from http://win-builds.org/doku.php/1.5.0_packages:

  • gnutls
  • win-iconv
Compiling VMime
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