[Enigmail] Thunderbird testing day

[Tobias Fischer]

On 17.02.2009 11:36, Ludwig Hügelschäfer wrote:
> Ludovic Hirlimann wrote on 17.02.2009 11:10 Uhr:
>> Hi all,
>> 
[...]
>> We know that the current windows build is not compatible with enigmail
>> so for this Friday you will not be able to run enigmail if you want to
>> participate.
> 
> This, however, is not true. There are nightly builds of enigmail for
> Windows, Linux and Mac OS X which work with nightly builds of
> Thunderbird trunk (aka Shredder).
> 
> http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download/nightly.php

Sure, there are Enigmail-Nightly-Builds, but enable jemalloc for
Thunderbird (and before for SeaMonkey Trunk) has broke Enigmail on
Windows in some cases, see:
https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18886
and the new one for TB:
https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=20563

With jemalloc enabled, the msvc*80.dll Files and the
Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest were removed, and SeaMonkey and Thunderbird
are shipping the mozcrt19.dll instead.

If there are some SDKs installed on the Windows System, there was no
msvcrt80.dll in the ..\windows\system32 Folder, instead there are
multiple Versions of this File in some ..\WINDOWS\WinSxS\ Subfolders,
and while installing Enigmail it could not find an msvcr80.dll, so the
enigmime-x86-msvc.dll fails to register and the Enigmime-Service was not
available.

On a fresh Windows-System without additional SDKs, where the msvcr80.dll
is still located in the ..windows\system32 Folder, Enigmail installs and
work properly also for SeaMonkey-Trunk-Builds with jemalloc enabled.

Some days ago mcsmurf has asked Ted Mielczarek on IRC, and he said, that
it was needed to link statically to the CRT building Enigmail for
Windows to fix this issue.
> 
> As always: Testers should take the red warning seriously!

Japp, but testing might help to find Bugs and get them fixed. :)