[sylpheed:32623] Re: stray '\' in program

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 15:14:06 +0200, Enrico Tröger wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:37:00 +0800, crazycode08 <crazycode08 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > hi,everyone:
> > 
> >   I try to compile the sylpheed source code under windows with MinGW
> > 
> > after I use make ,it shows some error:
> > 
> > account.c: In function `account_find_from_smtp_server':
> > account.c:117: error: stray '\' in program
> > [..]
> > account.c:446: error: stray '\' in program
> > account.c:446: error: `LibSylph' undeclared (first use in this
> > function) f:\msys\mingw\bin\make.exe: *** [account.lo] Error 1
> > 
> > I don't know what's wrong?
> 
> I'm not completely sure but this error message generally means there
> are non-Ascii characters in the source file which shouldn't be there.
> So, since the original source files are fine I guess your files are
> corrupted in some way, maybe while extracting the archive.
> Have a look at libsylph/account.c and check around line 117 to see how
> it looks and/or re-download the sources, extract them (don't use
> WinZip, it's known to mishandle line break characters sometimes) and
> try again.

Something's wrong with the user's glib, not with sylpheed. All these lines
in account.c point to glib preprocessor macros.