Re: Needed, Someone to make the 32-bit binary for BrailleBlaster on Windows
- From: "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:47:18 -0500
Well, I'm so used to how BrailleBlaster is set up that I don't realize
that it isn't obvious to others.
Once liblouis and liblouisutdml are compiled and inserted and SWT is
changed, BrailleBlaster requires only a JRE. The Java Access Bridge is
not required.
John
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 04:28:30PM -0500, Michael Taboada wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 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. Boyer
> >Sent: 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
> >
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