[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml structure
- From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:22:08 -0600
Michel,
That is good news indeed. There is not supposed to be a math.sem file in
the distribution. There used to be. There is an error in a configuration
file. I'll track that down.
A GuI is a good idea. You would want it to make up a command line for
xml2brl and then call the program. An advanced option might let the user
call lou_checktable for tables that they are working on. I kind of like
the idea of doing it in Python, but Visual Basic might be more natural
for Windows.
John
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:49:03PM +0100, Michel such wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Good news.
>
> I jst tried to produice a braille file.
> To do this, I used msword2brl, since I had no xml sample at hand.
> It seems that a semantic file called math.sem is missing in the distribution.
> I don't kow why it needs it since the file I wanted to convert contains only
> text.
> After creating this math.sem file in a dirty way (copied marburg.sem to
> math.sem) it ran fine.
> I am going to try it on a machine with no mingw environment.
>
> Under windows, it would be nice to make some gui environment for xml2brl, I
> am going to think about it.
> ----- 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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