[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Question aout liblouisxml structure
- From: "Michel such" <michel.such@xxxxxxx>
- To: <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 18:33:28 +0100
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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