RE: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans

  • From: "Sina Bahram" <sbahram@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:10:04 -0400

That was exactly what I was trying to figure out too.
 
I'm glad Ken asked first though, haha.

Glad I'm not the only one.

Take care,
Sina

-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ken Perry
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 11:04 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Seeking someone to compile 32-bit version of NFBTrans

Is there a reason your going back to an old bit of source when Liblouis is 
maintained so well?

Ken

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 7:22 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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