Re: Newby: getting started on Win32 compilation

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 18:19:18 EST

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    You're better off talking to Mike Pritchett or Jordi
    Mas, since they work on the Win32 stuff explicitly.
    Their names should be easily findable in the source.

    Dom

    --- John Coonrod <jc@thp.org> wrote:
    > Dom:
    >
    > Thanks - I actually am interesting in writing code -
    > I'm an old time
    > assembly-code type, but c is no particular problem.
    > Although being able
    > to compile a copy of abiword that works seems to be
    > a good place to
    > start, and I had hoped the 1.1.3 release tarball
    > would compile.
    >
    > Getting abiword to 2 will be quite a triumph for the
    > free software
    > world, and perhaps I could contribute.
    >
    > I'm using msys and mingw now, and it ran astonishing
    > far this time
    > before crashing:
    >
    > make[4]: Entering directory
    > `/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/main/win'
    > Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off
    > Debug:Off BiDi:LTR
    > Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
    > stdout: No error
    > Using `c:\MinGW\bin\gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED
    > -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/ap/win
    > -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win Win32Main.rc'
    > Using popen to read preprocessor output
    > c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe:
    >
    c:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win/xap_Win32Res_DlgLanguage.rc2:49:
    >
    > parse error
    > make[4]: ***
    >
    [/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.8_i386_EXP_OBJ/obj/Win32Mainrc.o]
    >
    > Error 1
    >
    > The rc2 has been around since 10/19/02 and line 49
    > looks immently
    > parseable, the Win32Main.rc file look unsurprising,
    > so I'm a bit baffled
    > - but I would expect these are pretty typical
    > problems in this kind of
    > project that I should learn how to sort out. Any
    > suggestion where to look?
    >
    > - John
    >
    > Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    >
    > >Unless you're feeling like actually writing code
    > for
    > >the project, I highly recommend trying out the
    > nightly
    > >builds.
    > >
    > >http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/
    > >
    > >Particularly:
    >
    >http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/win32/setup_abiword.exe
    > >
    > >Or follow the instructions for msys and mingw.
    > >
    > >Best of luck,
    > >Dom
    > >
    > >--- John Coonrod <jc@thp.org> wrote:
    > >
    > >ah... now I see... they recommend only using msys
    > with
    > >mingw rather
    > >than cygwin with mingw - ok, I'll try that.
    > >
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