[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml structure
- From: "Michel such" <michel.such@xxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:04:26 +0100
John,
Just tested it on my wife's machine which is free of any development
environment (no mingw or cygwin)
and it works fine.
I'll let you know how to build it (at least under mingw).
It is straight forward for liblouis and libxml2.
For liblouisxml, you need to install pkg-config which I spent spme time to
setup correctly.
----- Original Message -----
From: John J. Boyer
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 5:30 PM
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml structure
Michel,
This is great. I think your paths.c can be combined with the original
one to handle all situations. Can you make the binary and then test it
on machines that don't have either Mingw or Cygwin? If it works under
those circumstances we can figure out the best way to distribute it.
Please also give me a description of how you made it.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:09:55PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Oops, I understand the problem.
>
> So this new one seems to work fine, at least it finds all needed files on
my machine (liblouis tables and lbx files).
> So, here it is attached.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John J. Boyer
> To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 1:46 PM
> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml structure
>
>
> michel,
>
> This is a good start. It will work for now in getting the Windows
> version mp and running, but as you probably realize it can't replace the
> paths.c in the distribution. I do see a problem at line 152. You have to
> add paths for both \usr\share|liblouisxml\lbx_files and
> \usr\share\liblouis\tables . I'm really happy that we are so close.
>
> John
>
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:33:28PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > Here is a modified paths.c
> >
> > The _win32 code has been changed so that it returns the current path of
the module instead of "c:\Program Files".
> >
> > So, if you run for example xlm2brl.exe from directory d:\louis\bin,
> > it will return
> > d:\louis\bin\
> >
> > then you can concatenate the appropriate subdir.
> >
> > the conde has been borrowed from BRLTTY (essentially from file
sys_prog_windows.h)
> > and adapted by me to fit my needs.
> >
> > As I am not a great c expert, it probably might be improved.
> >
> > So here it is attached.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John J. Boyer
> > To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 9:00 PM
> > Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml
structure
> >
> >
> > Michel,
> >
> > When liblouis and liblouisxml are built under Linux you can specify
the
> > directory in which they will be placed with the --prefix option in
> > configure. I think
> > that it would be good if we didn't try to put them in "program
Files".
> > Neither Cygwin nor Mingw installs under that directory. Suppose,
> > however, we install them in c:\louss using configure
--prefix=c:\louis .
> > Then xml2brl.exe, lou_allround.exe, etc. will be in c:\louis\bin .
The
> > DLLs will be in c|\louis\lib and the liblouis tables will be in
> > c:\louis\usr\share\liblouis\tables . The liblouisxml semantic-action
> > files and configuration files will be in
> > c:\louis\usr\share\liblouisxml\lbx_files. The programs will thus be
able
> > to find what they need and we can make the Windows binary by zipping
the
> > c:\louis directory recursively.
> >
> > At least that is how I hope it would work. I'll have to try to
duplicate
> > your setup with Mingw and Msys. I have the zip file you put up a
couple
> > of weeks ago, but I think you have added some other packages. Could
you
> > provide a new file with these other packages? I'll have tr discover
how
> > the compiler can know that it is in Mingw as well as Windows. Then I
can
> > modify paths.c accordingly.
> >
> > You are making a real contribution. I think we are close to having
those
> > Windows binaries.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:15:36PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > It appears that, when compiling with mingw, it is recognized as
being in _win32 environment.
> > > So it compiles the lines corresponding to this in paths.c.
> > > It assumes that the directory containing the conversion tables and
the .cfg files should be somewhere under "c:\Program Files".
> > > It would be better, in my opinion, if it would be "Program "
independant.
> > > The better would be to retrieve the directory where the program
runs from.
> > > for example if I run the program from:
> > > c:\liblouisxml\bin\xml2brl.exe
> > > it should return
> > > c:\liblouisxml\bin as currentPath.
> > > Then, in yourSubDir, we could put something like
> > > ".\\etc\\tables"
> > > So, if you install liblouisxml in
> > > c:\Program Files\liblouisxml
> > > the path you would retrieve in the end would be:
> > > c:\Program Files\liblouisxml\bin..\etc\tables
> > > wich is like
> > > c:\Program Files\liblouisxml\etc\tables
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: John J. Boyer
> > > To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:27 PM
> > > Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml
structure
> > >
> > >
> > > Michel,
> > >
> > > i assume you are using Mingw and Msys. The mysubdir line was
intended
> > > for building liblouisxml with a Microsoft compiler such as VC6.
On line
> > > 38 of paths.c there is the statement:
> > > #ifdef _WIN32
> > > Which checks whether you are compiling under Windows. It should
also be
> > > possible to check whether you are using Mingw. I'm not sure just
what
> > > this variable is called. But if you are compiling under Mingw you
want
> > > to skip all the code up to line 118, where there is a comment
about Unix
> > > paths. This can be done by modifying the #ifdef statement at line
38.
> > > Let's hope someone more familiar with Mingw knows how to do this.
> > >
> > > Once this is done, we will have to decide on a suitable value for
the
> > > --prefix option in configure for both liblouis and liblouisxml.
> > >
> > > John
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 02:55:54PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > After 2 weeks of hard fight, I finally succeeded building
liblouisxml under Windows.
> > > >
> > > > Now a question:
> > > >
> > > > I have changed the file paths.c (line 114).
> > > > I replaced yoursubdir by a directory name of mine (I called it
"tables").
> > > > As I understand, this directory should contain conversion
tables and maybe cfg files.
> > > >
> > > > Where should this directory be located in the liblouisxml
directory structure?
> > > > I currently have a standard structire (bin, etc, include...)
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>
>
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