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

  • From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:33:36 -0600

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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> 
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