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evilneuro / eudora-win

Eudora for Windows source code
BSD 3-Clause Clear License
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Does it compile because the original source does not #1

Open Krammig opened 5 years ago

Krammig commented 5 years ago

Does this actually compile because the original source does not. Several missing Plugins and Libraries.

jgrisham commented 3 years ago

It does not currently compile.

From the Eudora page at the Computer History Museum:

The tasks in reviving the Windows version include replacing several third-party libraries for isolated tasks, like spell-checking. The HTML rendering engine should be replaced with something more modern. The handling of Unicode and other special character encoding needs to be improved.

Also, the Windows version uses a Qualcomm-modified version of RogueWave Software’s Stingray package of extensions to MFC, the Microsoft Foundation Class library for C++. After more than three years of discussion, we finally secured an agreement with RogueWave, giving us permission to distribute a binary linkable library compiled from the 20-year-old source code, but only for noncommercial use. That library is not currently part of this release, but we will build and distribute it if there is credible interest in rebuilding a noncommercial Windows version of Eudora. But it will take some effort to make the changes to the RogueWave source code necessary to compile it in a modern development environment, and we could use help in doing that.