[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Windows builds [was Italic in British Braille]
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 16:51:18 -0500
liblouis and liblouisutdml will have new "windows" directories that
contain a configuration file and a makefile for nmake. Porting new
releases for either 32 or 64 bits will then be simply a matter of
modifying the configuration file and then running nmake. Actually, I am
only interested in porting the libraries themselves and the executable
file2brl for liblouisutdml. The tables and liblouisutdml configuration
files are platform-independent, and with new features can be placed
anywhere.
Scons sounds interesting. Frankly, i don't like autotools, but I don't
think we will switch.
John
On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 07:38:05AM +1000, James Teh wrote:
> On 19/05/2011 7:25 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> >Right now I'm giving priority to porting liblouis and liblouisutdml to
> >Windows using the Microsoft compilers and to the BrailleBlaster GUI.
> >Using MinGW for the ports is unreliable and causes problems.
> Building liblouis with MinGW works just fine; I do it here for NVDA all
> the time. Unfortunately, the same can't be said for liblouisutdml.
>
> The problem with porting it to the Microsoft toolchain is that you won't
> be able to use autotools, which probably means there will be weird
> hackiness to build it on Windows. That is, people probably won't just be
> able to use the standard package to build on both platforms without
> copying files into directories, etc. I realise a lot has been invested
> in autotools, but it might seriously be worth considering moving to a
> build tool like SCons, which runs wherever Python runs and can easily
> handle building on multiple platforms including the gcc/make toolchain
> and the Microsoft toolchain. It would then probably be as simple as
> typing "scons" to build on whatever platform.
>
> Jamie
>
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