[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: win32 liblouis
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:41:48 -0600
Dinesh,
Besides Mingw you need msys. If you download the liblouisxml tarball you
will find a file called README-win32 This describes how to install MingW
and msys and how to make a Windows binary. Proceed with causion, because
it may be inaccurate. Let us know what problems you encounter so we can
correct it. You should be able to tell the configure script to use your
cross-compiler.
Thanks,
John
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 08:27:37PM +0530, Dinesh Kaushal wrote:
> James,
>
> I have downloaded minGW, but don't know how to use it to configure liblouis,
> is there any document that explains this? I could not find anything in
> liblouis documentation.
>
> "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent
> philosopher. The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing
> is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an
> exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither
> its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
>
> John Gardner
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Teh
> Sent: 26 November 2009 10:00 AM
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> Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: win32 liblouis
>
> On 26/11/2009 2:22 PM, Dinesh Kaushal wrote:
> > What is the configure process? I am not aware about it, I just added those
> > files to my project.
> Okay. There is some severe confusion here, I think.
>
> Later versions of liblouis are designed to be prepared for compilation
> using a script generated by autotools. This script is called
> "configure". Unfortunately, autotools was designed for Unix systems and
> requires at least a Unix shell.
>
> In Win32 x86, we use mingw to build liblouis, which includes, among
> other things, a Unix style shell and the gcc compiler. This builds
> native Windows executables, but allows for use of things like autotools.
>
> Unfortunately, you will probably have to do some significant tweaking to
> get this building with a Microsoft toolchain. I don't know why strerror
> doesn't exist; Win32 x86 seems to provide strerror.
>
> Jamie
>
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