Installation
============

This program requires GTK+ 2.4.0 or later to be compiled (GTK+ 2.6.0 or later
is recommended).

This program is developed on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / Windows XP.
It is possible that it dosen't work correctly on other environments.

Curretnly it is confirmed to work on the following environments
(Note: they might not work with the latest version):

Linux

o Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (development environment)
o Ubuntu 11.10
o Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (development environment)
o Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10
o Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) (glibc 2.7) (development environment)
o Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) (glibc 2.5)
o Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) (glibc 2.4)
o Debian GNU/Linux (i386/sid) (glibc 2.3.6)
o Debian GNU/Linux (amd64/sid-based) (glibc 2.3.5)
o Debian GNU/Linux (squeeze)
o Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
o Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) (glibc 2.3.2)
o Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) (glibc 2.2.5)
o Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) (glibc 2.1.3)
o Fedora 11 / 12
o Fedora Core 2 / 3
o Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 / 5
o RedHat Linux 5.2 (glibc 2.0.7)
o RedHat Linux 6.0
o RedHat Linux 6.1 + Helix GNOME (glibc 2.1.x)
o RedHat Linux 6.2 / 6.2J (glibc 2.1.x)
o RedHat Linux 7.0 / 7.0J / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3 / 8.0 / 9.0
o Vine Linux 1.1 (glibc 2.0.x + libwcsmbs)
o Vine Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x) (Intel, PPC)
o Vine Linux 2.1 / 2.1.5 / 2.5 / 2.6 / 3.0
o Vine Linux 4.2CR / 5.0 / 5.1
o TurboLinux 4.0 (glibc 2.0.7 + libwcsmbs)
o TurboLinux 6.0 (glibc 2.1.2)
o TurboLinux 7.0 (glibc 2.2.x)
o Miracle Linux Standard Edition Version1.0
o Miracle Linux for PostgreSQL Version1.0
o Miracle Linux for Samba Version1.0
o Laser5 Linux 6.0 / 6.2 / 6.4 (glibc 2.1.x)
o Kondara MNU/Linux 1.0 (glibc 2.1.x) / 1.2 / 2.0
o Momonga Linux 6.1 / dev
o LinuxPPC2000 + Yukikaze (Japanization kit)
o Linux2000G (Intel / PPC)
o HOLON Linux 2.0 (Intel / PPC)
o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 2.0 (glibc 2.1.x)
o Linux for PPC Japanese Edition 3.0 (glibc 2.1.x)
o LinuxPPC Q4 2000 (glibc 2.1.x)
o Linux MLD4/5
o Plamo Linux 2.0 / 2.1 / 2.2.x / 3.0
o Slackware 7.0 / 7.1 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 10.0 / 12.2 / 13.0
o Mandrake Linux 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 9.0 / 9.1 / 10.0
o Mandriva 2008.0 / 2008.1 / 2009.0 / 2009.1 / 2010.0 / 2010.1
o SuSE Linux 6.3 (glibc 2.1.2) / 6.4
o SuSE Linux 7.0 / 7.1 / 7.2 / 7.3 / 8.0 / 8.1 / 8.2
o OpenSUSE 11.1 / 11.2
o OpenLinux 2.3 (glibc 2.1.1 -> 2.1.3)
o Caldera OpenDesktop 2.4
o Caldera Workstation 3.1
o Conectiva Linux 4.0 / 5.0 / 7.0 / 8.0
o Vector Linux 1.5
o Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 (glibc 2.2.1)
o Yellow Dog Linux 2.1 (PowerPC)
o ASP Linux 7.2 (glibc 2.2.4)
o Redmond Linux (Lycoris)
o Gentoo Linux 1.x / 2004.2 (i386 / amd64)
o Arch Linux
o LinuxFromScratch
o Pardus 2009 / Corporate2

BSD

o FreeBSD 3.2/3.4-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 4.0/4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4/4.5/4.6-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE
o FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT
o FreeBSD 7-STABLE / 7.1R / 7.2R
o FreeBSD 8.0R
o NetBSD 1.4.2
o NetBSD 1.5 + XPG4DL
o NetBSD 1.5.1 / 1.5.2
o OpenBSD 2.7 / 2.8 / 2.9 / 3.0 / 3.1 / 3.6
o DragonFlyBSD 2.5.1
o PC-BSD 8.0
o BSD/OS 4.0.1

Others

o OpenSolaris 2009.06

Other commercial Unix

o Solaris 2.5 / 2.5.1 / 2.6
o Solaris 7 / 8 / 9 / 10
o AIX 4.3.3
o IRIX 6.3 / 6.4 / 6.5 6.5.8m
o HP-UX 10.20 / 11.0 / 11i
o Tru64 Unix 5.0 (OSF1 V5.0)
o Mac OS X 10.1.4 (Darwin 5.4) + XDarwin (without XLocale support) + libxpg4
o Mac OS X 10.2.3 (Darwin 6.3) + Apple X11 PublicBeta 0.1 + XLocale fix patch
o Mac OS X 10.3 / 10.4 + X11 for Mac OS X

Windows

o Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 (MinGW 32bit)

Build it
========

Please make sure that gtk-devel and glib-devel (or similar) packages are
installed before the compilation (you may also require flex (lex) and bison
(yacc)).

To compile and install, just type:

% ./configure
% make
% su
Password: [Enter password]
# make install

Additional libraries
====================

Compface library is required for X-Face support.
You can get compface utilities and library from the following location:

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/compface/

GnuPG (>= 1.2.0) and GPGME (>= 1.0.0) are required for GnuPG (PGP) support.
You can get GnuPG and GPGME from the following location:

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/
  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gnupg/

GtkSpell is required for spell checking feature.

  http://gtkspell.sourceforge.net/

OpenSSL is required for SSL support.

  http://www.openssl.org/

Pilot-link is required for JPilot support.

  http://www.pilot-link.org/

OpenLDAP library is required for LDAP support.

  http://www.openldap.org/

Update check feature requires Curl command.

  http://curl.haxx.se/

Options for configure script
============================

  --disable-gpgme        disable GnuPG support (requires GPGME and GnuPG)
  --disable-ssl          disable SSL support (requires OpenSSL)
  --disable-compface     disable compface (X-Face) support
  --disable-gtkspell     disable spell checking feature (requires GtkSpell)
  --disable-threads      disable multi-threading support
  --disable-ipv6         disable IPv6 support
  --disable-updatecheck  disable update check feature
                         (updatecheckplugin will also be disabled)
  --disable-updatecheckplugin
                         disable plug-in update check feature
  --enable-jpilot        enable JPilot support
  --enable-ldap          enable LDAP support
  --enable-oniguruma     use Oniguruma instead of system's regex

For other options, refer to ./configure --help .


If the installation of Sylpheed failed, check whether all the required
libraries are correctly installed. If it still failed, please send bug
report to:

  Hiroyuki Yamamoto <hiro-y@kcn.ne.jp>
