Ah... I see. I some how got the idea that you were compiling the java itself. Thanks.
-Michael.-----Original Message----- From: John J. Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 3:54 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxSubject: Re: Needed, Someone to make the 32-bit binary for BrailleBlaster on Windows
The Java classes are in a jar file which is platform-independent. The platform-dependent parts are those written in C and the platform-specific version of SWT. There are two dlls that need to be compiled for each platform, liblouis and liblouisutdml. There are build files for both of them and instructions on how to use these files. The process of making the 32-bit version would consist of compiling these dlls and placing them in the base directory of BrailleBlaster where brailleblaster.jar is also located. Then the 32-bit SWT would replace the 64-bit one in the lib subdirectory. John On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 03:24:15PM -0500, Michael Taboada wrote:
May I ask how you would want this person to turn the java .class files into platform dependent binary code (if you indeed to intend on doing this) as I think most if not all of the tools are quite expensive. I know there's gcj,but that, as far as I'm aware, does not support macs, and I thought you said a while back that you wanted this project to support macs as well. Thanks, -Michael.-----Original Message----- From: John J. BoyerSent: Wednesday, September 14, 2011 2:31 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Needed, Someone to make the 32-bit binary for BrailleBlaster on Windows I have put up a 64-bit version on http://www.braileblaster.org My machines are all 64-bit. While it is theoretically possible to makie a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, I am not comfortable with the idea. Besides, I need to have someone else use my windows build files and instructions to make sure that there are not glitches that I have overlooked. If you have a 32-bit system that has a Microsoft compiler and a Java SDK and want to help, please contact me offlist. Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind
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