Scott, what is your OS?
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 6:08 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Building for different versions
You can still help with building BrailleBlaster. That is probably more
important. It is largely platform-independent.
John
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 06:01:36PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
Sorry, if he is using Linux, I can't help. All I have learned is with
Windows only.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 5:21 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Building for different versions
I think Scott may be using Linux. In that case, compiling liblouis and
liblouisutdml from the tarballs will involve just following the usual
configure, make make install procedure.
This discussion may encoursge others to try building, so it is good to
have it on the list.
John
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 04:52:20PM -0400, Vic Beckley wrote:
Scott,
What I did, and what I would recommend for you, is to download the
latest
tarballs of liblouis and liblouisutdml and unpack them to your computer.
In
the root folder of the liblouisutdml package is a file called
readme.windows. It has good instructions as to what prerequisites you
will
need and how to compile the liblouis.dll and liblouisutdml.dll that you
will
need for Braille Blaster. One comment I have on the readme is that
typing
SDK does not run the command prompt. I don't know what version of
windows
you have, but you will have to find the way to start the command prompt
with
the right environment variables set. This shortcut will be in the folder
of
the SDK or Visual Studio that you install. To get these files go to the
For
Developers link on brailleblaster.org.
Once you have mastered this, we can move on to how to get the latest
files
from the repository and compiling them. This is good background work
because
you will use the same steps to compile the DLLs from the files
downloaded
from the repository.
Let me know if you have any questions about this procedure. I will get
the
links together to give you to download all the tools you need for the
rest
of the project.
I hope this helps.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Berry
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:29 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Building for different versions
Yes that would be the way I'd like to build.
On 3/13/2012 3:16 PM, Vic Beckley wrote:
Scott,
Do you want to build from the repository? There is quite a bit
involved,
but
I will try to take you through it step by step.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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[mailto:brailleblaster-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Berry
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 4:11 PM
To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Building for different versions
Hey Vic,
Can you help me out with compiling from scratch Braille Blaster and
Lib
Louis?
On 3/13/2012 12:15 PM, Vic Beckley wrote:
Michael and John,
I recompiled on my JDK 1.7 platform and got the exact same error that
I
sent
before. However, the brailleblaster.jar was different. It was 75K
instead
of
78K and now runs under Java 1.6. It looks like once you get all the
loose
ends tied up this will work fine.
Best regards from Ohio, U.S.A.,
Vic
E-mail: vic.beckley3@xxxxxxxxx
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Abilitiessoft, Inc.
http://www.abilitiessoft.com
Madison, Wisconsin USA
Developing software for people with disabilities
