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

  • From: "Neil Soiffer" <neil.soiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:25:55 -0800

If I already have cygwin installed, what do I need to install?

Also, for those of us who use Visual Studio for debugging, did you look into
creating a "solution" file and whatever else might be needed to debug under
Visual Studio (as John earlier remarked, there is a free version available).

    Neil


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Michel such <michel.such@xxxxxxx> 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 <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *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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> http://www.godtouches.org
> http://www.jjb-software.com
> Location: Madison, WI, USA
>
> For a description of the software and to download it go to
> http://www.jjb-software.com
>
>

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