I tried to use the mingw-built dlls from a visual studio project and they do not seem to be compatible with visual studio... at least we couldn't figure out how to link to them. I think I remember someone else on the list saying they couldn't get them to work either, but I could be wrong about that. Neil Soiffer Senior Scientist Design Science, Inc. www.dessci.com ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~ On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Christian Egli <christian.egli@xxxxxx>wrote: > "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > liblouis and liblouisutdml will have new "windows" directories that > > contain a configuration file and a makefile for nmake. Porting new > > releases for either 32 or 64 bits will then be simply a matter of > > modifying the configuration file and then running nmake. > > We had this approach before in that we had a directory for Mac where a > copy of the Makefiles were. However whenever there was a change in the > Makefiles (say there was a table) we forgot to also update the Makefiles > for the Mac. So I'd say this approach failed. Luckily in the end it > turned out the you can use autotools on the Mac and we got rid of the > Mac-specific Makefiles. > > I'm worried that this will be the fate of a windows specific build > directory. I managed to cross-compile liblouis before using mingw, so > I'd really like to know what the problems with mingw are. > > > Scons sounds interesting. Frankly, i don't like autotools, but I don't > > think we will switch. > > I kinda like autotools and its tight integration with the rest of the > tool chain (gnulib, generation of the documentation, etc), but then > again I only build on Linux. I wouldn't mind a more modern build tool > like cmake or scons, however I think this is a lot of work and I will > not invest any time in it. > > -- > Christian Egli > Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled > Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland > > ----- > Die SBS laedt Sie herzlich ein: > Tag der offenen Tuer am 25. Juni 2011 von 9 bis 16 Uhr. > Mehr Informationen erhalten Sie unter http://www.sbs.ch/offenetuer > For a description of the software, to download it and links to > project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com >