[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: window binary: does anyone use the DLLs?
- From: Greg Kearney <gkearney@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 08:22:09 +0800
John;
What will I need to compile BrailleBlaster on the Mac?
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On 15/03/2011, at 7:52 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Neil,
>
> These binaries were made using MinGW-msys. I won't vouch for the dlls,
> especially as I let someone else do the work.
>
> For the BrailleBlaster project I am trrying to make just the dlls for
> liblouis and liblouisutdml using MSVC++ Express. This isn't the first
> experience that makes me distrust both Mikngw and Cygwin. A Microsoft
> compiler had better do things right!
>
> I'm trying to download MSVC++ Express right now. I could use a .def file
> also. There were some in the code you sent me a few years ago, but I
> can't find that now.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 03:59:20PM -0700, Neil Soiffer wrote:
>> I sat down to try and update my three year old copy of liblious and hook it
>> up with MathPlayer. I was very happy when someone contributed windows
>> binaries and thought this would make my life much simpler. But... I can't
>> figure out how to get the DLLs to work from Visual Studio.
>>
>> Has anyone used the DLLs from a Microsoft Visual Studio? I can link against
>> liblouisxml.dll.a, but it gives the warning "multiple text sectors found".
>> Running IE (which MathPlayer lives inside of and calls liblious) crashes
>> IE. There is some discussion of this on the web:
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1291594/using-libs-dlls-compiled-in-linux-mingw-in-visual-studio
>>
>> Are there .def files anywhere around that I could try as part of the
>> solution?
>>
>> Has anyone successfully used the windows DLLs in a Visual Studio project?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Neil Soiffer
>> Senior Scientist
>> Design Science, Inc.
>> www.dessci.com
>> ~ Makers of MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy, Equation Editor ~
>
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