<h3>The easy way</h3>

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Install the <a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> Bash shell. Make sure to select Unix file mode during setup. Also make sure you install bzip2, coreutils, cvs, grep, gzip, make, patch, sed, awk, tar, unzip, and wget (several of these are selected by default).

<p>Skip the &quot;The manual way,&quot; &quot;Install Gaim's build dependencies,&quot; and &quot;Get the Gaim source code&quot; sections and go straight to &quot;<a href="#buildgaim">Build Gaim</a>&quot;.

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<h3>The manual way</h3>

<li>Install the <a href="http://cygwin.com">Cygwin</a> Bash shell. Make sure to select Unix file mode during setup. Also make sure you install bzip2, coreutils, cvs, grep, gzip, make, patch, sed, awk, tar, unzip, and wget (several of these are selected by default).</li>

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The following instructions were written under the assumption that you checkout Gaim from the cvs repository to <code>~/gaim</code> and that you install all of Gaim's build dependencies under <code>~/win32-dev</code> (the point being that the gaim and win32-dev directories should be on the same level).

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<h2>Install Gaim's build dependencies</h2>

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