How to make Preference Pane (which includes Sparkle) compile?

[elvey]

I can't compile the app. I get this:

(null): error: /Volumes/HD/Downloads/Webmailer-master/../Sparkle 1/dsa_pub.pem: No such file or directory

https://github.com/andymatuschak/Sparkle/wiki

hints/suggests that running
ruby generate_keys.rb (from the Sparkle distribution root):
should fix the problem, but it's not part of the Sparkle that the code comes with, and as README.md notes, Webmailer uses an old version of Sparkle.
I downloaded the .zip and am trying to build with the current versions of OS X and Xcode.

Anyone have success? Does the current version of Sparkle help?

[belkadan]

Heh, I didn't do a great job releasing this. dsa_pub.pem is the public key needed to authenticate Sparkle updates; I didn't commit it to the repo because I figured anyone forking the project wouldn't be using my update server anyway. (After all, they don't have my private key, which they'd need to sign updates to use my dsa_pub.pem.)

If you're just trying to get Webmailer to build, you can probably just drop that reference from your project file. Sparkle will fail to load, of course, but that won't hurt the rest of Webmailer.