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

  • From: "Neil Soiffer" <neil.soiffer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:07:26 -0800

cygwin (which includes gcc, etc if you say you want it) will build native
windows binaries.  I wonder if the linking problem is one of missing some
libraries or wrong paths for finding the libraries?

Solution files are text files as are project files (they are actually XML),
so there shouldn't be a problem with them.

    Neil


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, John J. Boyer <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Neil,
>
> I have the full version of Cygwin. liblouis compiles and runs out of the
> box. liblouisxml compiles but can't link to either liblouis or libxml2 .
> I
> understand that mingw creates native Window executables.
>
> Interestingly, there is a similar problem with linking liblouisxml on
> the Mac. Also, the compiles create the directory /usr, which OS X
> doesn't provide by itself.
>
> Aren't solution files binary? I would rather keep development files
> text, for easy stydy and maybe modification.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:25:55PM -0800, Neil Soiffer wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> > > --
> > > 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
>

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