Building DavMail from source

Building DavMail is quite simple:

• Make sure you have Java 6 or 7 installed and set as current version by checking JAVA_HOME:
  
  • Unix/OSX:

    echo $JAVA_HOME

  • Windows:

    echo %JAVA_HOME%

• Check if you already have Apache Ant installed :
  

  ant -version

  
  If you don't, download and unzip ant from ant.apache.org, add ant/bin full path to the PATH environment variable.
• Get DavMail source package from sourceforge and uncompress it:

  tar xvzf davmail-src-*.tgz

  
  or checkout trunk:

  svn co https://svn.code.sf.net/p/davmail/code/trunk

  
  or get and uncompress tarball from https://sourceforge.net/p/davmail/code/HEAD/tree/trunk
• Additional steps on Windows:
  • Download and install NSIS from http://nsis.sourceforge.net
  • Make sure NSIS install path (C:\Program Files\NSIS) is available in system path
  • Then get KillProcess plugin from http://www.esanu.name/software/index.php/nsis-kill-process/ or the nsis directory in DavMail source.
  • Copy the processwork.dll library to NSIS plugin directory.
• Go into davmail directory root directory (which contains the build.xml file) and type:

  ant

Packages are then available under dist

Generating DavMail website content

The source for the DavMail website is in the same version control system as the Davmail source.

To generate the HTML, have maven and the maven site plugin installed.

• on .deb systems:

  sudo apt install maven libmaven-site-plugin-java

• on .rpm systems:

  sudo yum install maven libmaven-site-plugin-java

• on other systems: Install maven and maven-site-plugin

Generating the actual HTML is done by these commands:

mvn site

ant fix-site

The HTML files are then available under target/site/