RE: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:03:45 -0400
Is there a reason your going back to an old bit of source when Liblouis is
maintained so well?
Ken
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:22 AM
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Cc: Arthur Pirika
Subject: Re: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans
Cool -- thanks for working on this. Hopefully, the result can be a
better NFBTrans, not just a 32-bit compatible one.
Jamal
On 7/30/2010 7:02 AM, Arthur Pirika wrote:
> I've also taken a look at this code, and while it does seem pretty
> portable, the only part that looked fishy at first was an asm file, but
> all it does is pc speaker sound output.
> However, the code's a wash with #defines, #ifdef DOS's and unixes,
> djgpp's, etc. Also, for instance, it sets some hard limits on path
> lengths. 127 if it's dos, and 1024 if it's unix. Btw, I'm looking into
> this with open watcom, using it's win32 compilers.
>
> Just some thoughts,
> Arthur.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Joseph Lee" <joseph.lee22590@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 10:38 PM
> Subject: Re: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans
>
>
>> Thanks. Please share any notes from your efforts. If you run into a
>> problem and report it here, someone else may be able to help.
>>
>> Jamal
>>
>>
>> On 7/29/2010 10:32 AM, Joseph Lee wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'll try it via VS2008 (I have 32-bit machine).
>>> Cheers,
>>> Joseph
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:33 AM
>>> To: programmingblind
>>> Subject: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans
>>>
>>> NFBTrans is a free, open source braille translator available at
>>>
>>> http://www.nfb.org/nfb/nfbtrans.asp
>>>
>>> The last version released is a 16-bit process, so will not run on 64-bit
>>> Windows. I am looking for a C programmer who can compile a 32-bit
>>> version using the included source code. The distribution does include
>>> make files for Unix-like systems, so my hope is that the code is written
>>> in a portable enough manner that a skilled C programmer would be able to
>>> recompile it for platforms of today without much difficulty.
>>>
>>> Can anyone do this via MinGW, or if not, with another C compiler? I
>>> would gladly post an updated distribution for anyone to use freely.
>>>
>>> As an option in the Open Other Format command, Control+Shift+O, EdSharp
>>> uses the existing NFBTrans for back translation of .brf or .brl files
>>> into plain text (e.g., books downloaded from BookShare or NLS). This
>>> does not work on Win64, however.
>>>
>>> Jamal
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