Re: MinGW build of 1.99.5 available

From: Stephen Viles (sviles_abi@iinet.net.au)
Date: Tue Aug 26 2003 - 17:54:28 EDT

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    26/08/03 10:57:48 PM, "Kenneth J. Davis" <jeremyd@computer.org> wrote:
    >Perl is now an optional dependency and an acceptable addition
    >(find is also optional, but has little impact if the line with
    >it is commented out). Without perl, everything still builds,
    >you just don't get Help. [thankfully ls and basename are no
    >longer also required]
    >
    >You need to manually correct the path to perl in make-abidoc.pl
    >to point to where you actually have perl (Cygwin's may work, though
    >I find the ActiveState version works better in general). Given
    >the complaint I would think it failed to correctly build them,
    >and checking, yes it failed (the files exist but are 0 bytes).
    >I think the path of perl in the file should be changed to something
    >like /usr/bin/perl or whatever the proper Unix path is.
    >
    >The find error may be ignored, it was explained to me (thank you)
    >that the find line simply deletes the unnecessary CVS directories
    >from the help docs (though I suspect the tarball lacks them, hence
    >your error about not finding them, couldn't say for sure though as
    >I simply commented out that line locally as I don't have find
    >installed).

    Thanks Jeremy. Could someone please update the build docs?

    >Did you finish getting the plugins to build or did you get stuck
    >on some of the dependencies?

    Building the plugins failed fairly quickly:

    About to build all plugins.
    make -C tools build
    make[1]: Entering directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools'
    Building tools plugins.
    make -C abipaint build
    make[2]: Entering directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint'
    Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off
    Scripting:Off].
    make ABI_ROOT=/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi -C win build
    make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/win'
    Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off
    Scripting:Off].
    pngdib.c:
    gcc.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    ut_Win32Process.cpp:
    g++.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    png2bmp.cpp:
    g++.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    bmp2png.cpp:
    g++.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/win'
    make ABI_ROOT=/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi -C xp build
    make[3]: Entering directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/xp'
    Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off
    Scripting:Off].
    AbiPaint.cpp:
    g++.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    AbiGeneric.cpp:
    g++.exe: unrecognized option `-GX'
    make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/xp'
    ld --dll -o /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386
    _OBJ/plugins/libAbiPaint.so /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_
    1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/AbiPaint.o /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32
    _1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/AbiGeneric.o /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-
    plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/ut_Win32Process.o /home/Default/abiword-
    1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/pngdib.o /home/Default/abiword-
    1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/png2bmp.o /home/Default/abiword-
    1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/bmp2png.o -
    L/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj
    /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386
    _OBJ/obj/libAbi_libexpat.a -lfribidi /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-
    plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/bin/AbiWord.a /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-
    plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/ut_sleep.o /home/Default/abiword-
    1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386_OBJ/obj/libAbi_libpng_s.a
    /home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386
    _OBJ/obj/libAbi_zlib_s.a advapi32.lib gdi32.lib
    c:\MinGW\bin\ld.exe: cannot open C:/MSYS/1.0/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386
    _OBJ/bin/AbiWord.a: No such file or directory
    make[2]: *** [/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint/../../../abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.9_i386
    _OBJ/plugins/libAbiPaint.so] Error 1
    make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools/abipaint'
    make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
    make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Default/abiword-1.99.5/abiword-plugins/tools'
    make: *** [build] Error 2

    Cheers - Stephen.

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