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

  • From: "Michel such" <michel.such@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:48:51 +0100

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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