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Building
Windows
The Windows build is currently x64-only and follows the same shape as
ZoiteChat's Windows GitHub Actions workflow: prepare C:\gtk-build, put
the dependency bundles where win32\zoitechat.props expects them, then build
win32\zoitechat.sln with MSBuild.
Source code
Clone the source and enter the checkout:
git clone https://github.com/zoitechat/zoitechat.git
cd zoitechat
Dependencies
Create the dependency root:
mkdir C:\gtk-build
Download the GTK3 x64 bundle
and extract it to C:\gtk-build\gtk\x64\release.
Download the remaining Windows dependency artifacts from the
ZoiteChat gvsbuild releases
and extract them to these paths:
- gendef: C:\gtk-build\gendef
- WinSparkle x64 bundle: C:\gtk-build\WinSparkle\x64
- Perl 5.42 x64 bundle: C:\gtk-build\perl-5.42.0.1\x64
Set up Python where the project file expects it. From PowerShell, adjust the
Python path if your install is elsewhere:
mkdir C:\gtk-build\python-3.14
cmd /c mklink /J C:\gtk-build\python-3.14\x64 C:\Python314
C:\gtk-build\python-3.14\x64\python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip cffi
Windows runtime updates
Both Windows workflows select the latest stable Python 3.14.x using
actions/setup-python with check-latest: true. Python 3.15 and prereleases
are excluded. The separate Python 3.8.10 build for older Windows is retained.
tools/prepare-windows-runtimes.py selects the highest stable x64 Strawberry
Perl version from its official release feed, verifies the portable ZIP against
the published SHA-256, and checks the extracted interpreter's version and
architecture before building. Development versions (odd Perl minor numbers)
are excluded. The generated MSBuild properties select its headers and DLL;
the generated Inno include selects the matching MSI, Python installer URL and
component descriptions. Build logs record the exact selected versions.
For a manual build, first install the latest Python 3.14 point release (at least
3.14.8), prepare its junction and CFFI as above, then run from the checkout:
C:\gtk-build\python-3.14\x64\python.exe tools\prepare-windows-runtimes.py
The script downloads the complete Strawberry portable distribution under
C:\gtk-build. Generated configuration files are ignored by Git. Running
it again refreshes that dependency; builds without generated files retain the
original manually configured Perl bundle.
Updates happen when a new ZoiteChat build runs. An existing installation keeps
using its installed compatible Python or Perl; installing/updating ZoiteChat
does not force an upgrade of an already detected system runtime. MSI/MSIX
continue to package the scripting plugins; the Inno installer offers runtime
downloads when the corresponding runtime DLL is missing.
If you use different locations, set these environment variables before building
instead of editing win32\zoitechat.props:
- ZOITECHAT_DEPS_PATH
- ZOITECHAT_GENDEF_PATH
- ZOITECHAT_PERL_PATH
- ZOITECHAT_PYTHON3_PATH
- ZOITECHAT_WINSPARKLE_PATH
- ZOITECHAT_ISCC_PATH
Building
Open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 in the source checkout and run:
msbuild win32\zoitechat.sln /m /verbosity:minimal /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64
To build the installer, open win32\zoitechat.sln in Visual Studio,
set release/installer as the startup project, then run Build.
The build output is written to ..\zoitechat-build\x64. The installer
build writes a ZoiteChat*.exe installer in that output tree.
Unix
First of all, you have to install the build dependencies. Package names
differ across distros, so be creative and check meson's output
if you get an error.
Most package-managers can get the dependencies for you:
dnf:
dnf install -y meson gettext-devel gtk3-devel iso-codes-devel libarchive-devel libayatana-appindicator-gtk3-devel libcanberra-devel lua-devel openssl-devel perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-Embed python3-cffi python3-devel
apt:
apt-get install -y meson gettext iso-codes libarchive-dev libayatana-appindicator3-dev libcanberra-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev liblua5.4-dev libpci-dev libperl-dev libssl-dev python3-dev python3-cffi desktop-file-utils
ZoiteChat has its source code hosted using Git, so you have to install Git as
well. When it's ready, you can start the actual compilation, which is
basically:
System Message: WARNING/2 (<stdin>, line 131)
Cannot analyze code. Pygments package not found.
.. code-block:: bash
git clone https://github.com/zoitechat/zoitechat.git
cd zoitechat
meson setup build
ninja -C build
sudo ninja -C build install
This will compile with defaults. See meson configure build for more info
about flags.
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