[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: For Michel, Windows Binaries

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 15:39:13 -0600

Michel,

thanks. I hope we can find the library-path problem with liblouisxml. 
xml2brl on Windows will really get us a wider audience!

John

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 09:48:51PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> John,
> 
> You can download the packages (mingw, msys, msysdtk) from:
> http://www.nvda.fr/dl/mingw-msys.zip
> 
> Something I forgot, once compiled, you will find liblouis in directory 
> c:\msys\1.0\local
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: John J. Boyer 
>   To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:33 PM
>   Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: For Michel, Windows Binaries
> 
> 
>   Michel,
> 
>   Thanks. Please do prepare the zip file with mingw, msys and mingwdtk. 
> 
>   You can find a zip file with a Windows binary for libxml2 on their site. 
>   I don't know if that will work with mingw. 
> 
>   John
> 
>   On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 07:46:17PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
>   > John,
>   > 
>   > I built up a brand new environment on my second machine and succeeded 
> compiling liblouis on it (did not try for liblouisxml).
>   > 
>   > In fact, you only need mingw, msys and msysdtk.
>   > 
>   > 1. install mingw (I used v 5.14). There is only one thing to take care 
> of: At a moment, during install, you will find a sery of radio buttons asking 
> you to install current, previous or beta version.
>   > I choosed "previous" since I got problems installing "current" that did 
> not work with brltty.
>   > 
>   > Once mingw installed, you can now install msys.
>   > At a moment, the installer asks you to enter the path to mingw.
>   > Provided you installed mingw on c: simply enter c:\mingw (you must use a 
> backslash in contradiction to what is explained on the screen).
>   > 
>   > 3. Install msysdtk. This one installs straight forward.
>   > 
>   > Now, there remains two little things to do.
>   > 
>   > When you start msys from your desktop, it basically with a terminal 
> called rxvt which is not especially accessible.
>   > To avoid this, go to directory c:\msys\1.0\bin
>   > rename rxvt.exe in rxvt.bak for example.
>   > Now, msys will start with a standard sh terminal which is very accessible.
>   > 
>   > Second change.
>   > In directory c:\msys\1.0 there is a batch file called msys.bat .
>   > It is the one that starts msys.
>   > At the beginning of the batch after the line echo off add the following 
> line
>   > set path=%path%;c:\msys\1.0\bin;c:\mingw\bin;
>   > To have all the executables accessible from the sh environment.
>   > 
>   > Now you are up. I guess you know how to proceed now.
>   > 
>   > If you like, I can prepare a zip file containing the mingw, msys and 
> msysdtk I have used so you won't need to search on the web.
>   > 
>   > Have fun!
>   > 
>   >   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   >   From: John J. Boyer 
>   >   To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   >   Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 7:23 PM
>   >   Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] For Michel, Windows Binaries 
>   > 
>   > 
>   >   Michel,
>   > 
>   >   How would you go about making the Windows binaries? It's probably 
>   >   something I should know how to do, since the code changes frequently. 
> It 
>   >   would also be nice to have Windows binaries for liblouisxml. Someone 
> did 
>   >   try to compile the latter on Mingw and Msys, but there was a problem 
>   >   with the linker being unable to find either liblouis or libxml2.
>   > 
>   >   Thanks,
>   >   John
>   > 
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