Hi John,
Indeed in principle it should be possible to build liblouisutdml following
the instructions in the doc file. What I don't like personally is that using
the command line involves a lot of manual actions like selecting the proper
map and preparing the environment in case of Microsoft Visual Studio for
Windows.
Secondly persons who use this, including myself, are generally not familiar
with all the operating systems and the implications of the flags used for
each system.
So parts in the system remain untouched or are set inadvertly to an
incompatible value so it is not usable anymore with other operating systems
or other compilers. I think we need more cooperation of the specialists in
each field.
Arend
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
From: John J. Boyer
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 12:38 PM
To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Windows build
When I wrote the Microsoft compilation stuff for liblouisutdml quite
some years ago I wrote a program which examined the autotools files and
created an nmake file. This was then used to compile liblouisutdml. The
same approach could have been taken with liblouis. I never did compile
the liblouis tools or file2brl, mostly because of gnulib.
It would be great if Davy or Arend could make their work generally
available. What we really need is a self-extracting .exe setup file.
John
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