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 > > -- > My websites: > 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 -- My websites: 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