To install Guifications, simply extract the contents of this zip file
to your pidgin install directory, which is C:\Program Files\Pidgin by
You need a complete Pidgin build environment set up, and Pidgin already
If you're using a version of MinGW 3.1-1 or lower you'll need to update
some of the api, and extract/copy it into your MinGW directory. You can
get the updated api from:
http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/w32api-3.1.tar.gz?download
You also need fontconfig and freetype2 development bits, which you can get
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/fontconfig-dev-2.2.2-20040412.zip and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/freetype-2.1.2-1-lib.zip?download
extract those in ~/win32-dev/gtk_2_0 (where ~/win32-dev is part of your Pidgin
Then extract the Guifications source into:
pidgin-source-tree/plugins/
pidgin-source being what ever path you extracted the pidgin source tree to.
For example, if your pidgin source tree is in /home/user/pidgin-VERSION
you want to "cd" over to /home/user/pidgin-VERSION/plugins/ and type:
tar zxvf guifications-VERSION.tar.gz
Then cd into the source dir
make -f Makefile.mingw install
When it's done building copy
win32-install-dir/plugins/guifications.dll
win32-install-dir/pixmaps/guifications
to your pidgin install dir, (Keeping the already defined tree structure of
And you should be good to go. Restart pidgin and try it out.
