Finally got it to compile, problem turned out to be that the trunk (the source available via mercurial) contained the problem and it wasn't my computer related.
So yeah, follow the steps now and it works, should have just done this two days late, would have worked perfect.
So anyways progress on the bug itself is going slow but going. So far I managed to split it into two parts, the first creating an independent program that should be capable of showing jumplists and creating actions efficiently, as well as scouring around the source code (planning to do that on ubuntu, don't know why) for a few classes that are will be required to link thunderbird to the taskbar (Currently on this milestone).
The second part is actually implementing the linking and debugging the hell out of it. Not that it should be too hard to keep a low amount of bugs in such a fix but comming from someone who spent over two days trying to compile something... =D
I'm kind of freaked out by having to finally do something that counts in the cs world, somehow the concept of a opensource program used by a ton of people (even I installed it on clients machines during internships) seems like something; specially compared to the code we been producing at uni that mainly threw time efficiency and any effective coding ethics clean out the window and worked mainly just to work. So here goes luck and all, wish me luck!
Would also like to thank fellow classmates for their effort to help as well as the open source community (irc is uber cool) for the time they give to total noobs :D.
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