Hi John, Make Install? Won't that install the library into one of the folders such as /usr/share/lib? Is this not a potential problem, as all dpendancies of Brailel Blaser on the Mac should be in the Braille Blaster application bundle? I'm just a little confused about the purpose of doing Make Install. Regards, Alex, On 2010-12-09, at 7:32 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: > Alex, > > Sure. The autotools procedure of configure, make make install works on > the Mac. With liblouisutdml you might have trouble with pkg-config. It > was missing on Leopard, but it may be on Snow Leopard. > > Windows is the real problem, though it isn['t hard if you know what you > are doing. The Eclipse plugin would be useful for that situation. > > John > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 07:00:27AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> Just a question, but couldn't I just use GCC for compiling the code you >> mentioned? >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 2010-12-09, at 6:44 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: >> >>> Alex, >>> >>> Yes, I think that would be a good first milestone. It would be easy to >>> implement other useful subcommands as well. One problem is that for a >>> truly useable release we will need to find a reliable way of portinng >>> liblouis and liblouisutdml to various platforms. Could you install the >>> Eclipse C++ plugin for the Mac and see if you can compile the latest >>> liblouis with its command-line tools? liblouuisutdml can wait a bit. The >>> one at www.abilitiessoft.com doesn't work. I'll have to fix that. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 06:16:44AM -0800, Alex Jurgensen wrote: >>>> Hi John, >>>> >>>> As I mentioned before, I think that a command-line embossing feature would >>>> be a good first milestone to reach. >>>> >>>> It would allow for some basic translation and embossing to take place. >>>> >>>> Because it would be a command-line tool, it would allow us to continue to >>>> iron out the UI design, while at the same time allowing us to put out >>>> something usable. >>>> >>>> Let me know hwat you think. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Alex, >>>> >>>> >>>> On 2010-12-08, at 8:39 AM, John J. Boyer wrote: >>>> >>>>> There is a lot in the specification. It would also be great if we could >>>>> get something usable out soon. I wonder what various people think should >>>>> be the minimum features in a usable release, aside from the obvious, >>>>> such as translation and working with generic embossers. This could be >>>>> out first milestone. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks, >>>>> John >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer >>>>> Abilitiessoft, Inc. >>>>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com >>>>> Madison, Wisconsin USA >>>>> Developing software for people with disabilities >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Alex Jurgensen, >>>> VoiceOver Trainer, >>>> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> >>>> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer >>> Abilitiessoft, Inc. >>> http://www.abilitiessoft.com >>> Madison, Wisconsin USA >>> Developing software for people with disabilities >>> >>> >> >> Alex Jurgensen, >> VoiceOver Trainer, >> ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> >> Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org >> > > -- > John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer > Abilitiessoft, Inc. > http://www.abilitiessoft.com > Madison, Wisconsin USA > Developing software for people with disabilities > > Alex Jurgensen, VoiceOver Trainer, ASquared21@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Visit us on the web at: www.vipbc.org