I am not really sure whether it would be useful for MacOSX considering
certain things in the build process and what one gets out.
The main thing which comes to my mind is that the default table path
gets hard coded into liblouis by the compile process, so if I were to
compile liblouis on my system to have a table path of
/Users/mwhapples/my_tables, then my build of liblouis is almost
certainly not going to work on anyone elses system.
I think something similar happens with the command line tools of
liblouis and where they look for the liblouis library.
OK, I could use some fairly generic type path like
/usr/share/liblouis/tables which installing the binary build could
create and place the tables in, but that in itself is a bit wrong on the
Mac as it would require an installer rather than distributing an
appbundle and would mean writing files into system directories.
LibLouis itself is not an end user tool and in my mind its really for
the end user application developers to create a suitable binary
distribution. As an example my JLouis java bindings for LibLouis does a
certain amount of work to allow the Java application to set the table
path (and if they are not I could get the JLouis bindings to default the
path to somewhere relative to the JLouis JAR should the application not
set a table path). This is something which the command line tools of
LibLouis do not do and so lower their suitability for portable
redistribution in binary form.
It is worth noting that I seem to remember there being special code in
LibLouis which makes the table path relative for Windows binaries. May
be this should also be the case for MacOSX. If that were done then it
would be more suitable for binary distribution.
Michael Whapples
On 03/09/2015 17:15, Gregory Kearney wrote:
Could we also please offer the same thing for MacOS as well? It is almost
impossible to build LibLouisutdml on that platform and it is what I really need.
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On Sep 3, 2015, at 8:42 AM, Arend Arends <mada73bg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:For a description of the software, to download it and links to
Hi Christian,
I have so far downloaded several versions of the mingw32msvc versions, but not
the latest version. I have studied the contents, but after all I most of the
time used the version that I compiled myself with MSVC.
One reason is that I need that version to build LibLouisutdml. Another reason
is that I was not sure about the result. When I compile with MSVC I need to
make some changes.
It is not quite clear whether the mingw32 version compiles for 16 or 32 bits
characters input/output. I assume 16 bits because of the definition in
liblouis.h:
#define widechar unsigned short int
Further there is no lib file included, which is necessary for linking the dll.
I normally do not use the tools because I am generally not involved in
producing tables. I hate to use command line tools. It would probably be better
if I had a set of batch files available so I do not have to do a lot of typing
before I can start running the tools (this goes also for the compilation
process).
Ideally I would like to get compiled versions for both liblouis and
liblouisutdml with the necessary header files and lib files.
Is the current compiled version useful? Yes it still is, if one has problems
with doing the compilation oneself or for comparison.
I would like to dive into the matter of making these things more automatic, but
thusfar I lacked the time or energy. It would also require some knowledge of
the other build systems.
Best regards,
Arend Arends
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- From: Christian Egli
Sent: Thursday, September 3, 2015 4:55 PM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Pre-built Windows binaries
Hi all
For the last few releases I not only packed up a tar ball of the source
code, but I also built a zip file containing a dll and some exe files of
the tools using mingw.
Now I changed machines and my mingw infrastructure has changed and I
only seem to be able to build 64bit versions. That is what I uploaded
for the 2.6.4 release. But since I do not use Windows I have no way of
testing these binaries.
My question hence: is anyone even using these binaries and are they
useful? If yes then I'm looking for a way to off-load this job. Maybe
someone trusted in the community could take over this job or help me set
up some automation that could build the binaries automatically.
Thanks
Christian
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