How to build Enigmail with Thunderbird 7.0.1?

[tanhosy]

I've builded Enigmail with Thunderbird 7.0.1.
My system:
- MS Windows server 2008 32bit
- MS Visual Studio 2008 Professional
- MS Windows SDK 7.0 for Windows 7 (.NET Frameword 3.5).
- DirectX (June 2010).
- Thunderbird source: 7.0.1 (ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/t ... ce.tar.bz2)
- Enigmail soucre: 1.3.2 (http://www.mozilla-enigmail.org/downloa ... 3.2.tar.gz).

I followed http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/source.php.html but not sussess.
If someone builded thunderbird with enigmail before, please help me...

[patrick]

Did the Thunderbird build succeed?

[tanhosy]

Yes, Thunderbird build succeed but Enigmail didn't success.

I try to build Thunderbird 3.x with Enigmail 1.1.2. It succeed.
May be, Enigmail not support Thunderbird 7.x now?

[patrick]

Enigmails does compile on Thunderbird 7, otherwise there wouldn't be an official release for it. What error message(s) do you get?

[tanhosy]

It's success. I did these thing:
- Build Thunderbird 7.0.1 foll ow http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/source.php.html.
- Extract Enigmail source to thunderbird-7.0.1\comm-release\mailnews\extensions\enigmail
- Run: ./makemake -r
- Copy this maked source (from thunderbird-7.0.1\comm-release\mailnews\extensions\enigmail) to thunderbird-7.0.1\comm-release\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\mailnews\extensions\enigmail
- Run make
- Run make xpi
- I found thunderbird-7.0.1\comm-release\obj-i686-pc-mingw32\mozilla\dist\bin\enigmail-1.4-win32-i686.xpi

But i want to intergrated emailmail to thunderbird installer, how can i do that?

[patrick]

Short answer: you can't do that.

Long answer: Extensions can be packed into Thunderbird distributions as separate items by placing them to the extensions folder like globally installed extensions. This is e.g. how the default theme is integrated into Thunderbird. I must admit, I have no idea how the process that creates the installer works but I'm sure you'll find the answer somewhere on the internet.

[tanhosy]

Thank you a lot of clear answers.