[brailleblaster] Re: Howto Compile BrailleBlaster for Mac OS X on the Command Line

  • From: Alex Jurgensen <asquared21@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:49:12 -0700

Hi John,

I tried to unpack the file from BrailleBlaster.org with both Archive tility and 
with the unzip command-line tool, but I get errors both ways.

I have tried redownloading the file with the same result.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Alex,


On 2011-07-12, at 3:23 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> I am not sure I understand your question. If you download the latest 
> release from http://www.brailleblaster.org you do not have to compile 
> it. You will however, need a version of SWT for the Mac. Place this in 
> brailleblaster/dist/lib replacing the version of SWT that is already 
> there. Then go to brailleblaster/dist and type java -jar 
> brailleblaster.jar If you compile liblouis and liblouisutdml for the Mac 
> you can place liblouis-2.dylib and liblouisutdml.dylib in 
> brailleblaster/dist/native/lib and use the translate subcommand.
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:07:37PM -0700, Alex Jurgensen wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I am trying to get Braille Blaster to work on Mac OS X.
>> 
>> How do I get it to run?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Alex,
>> 
>> 
> 
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> http://www.godtouches.org
> Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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> 
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