Re: Newby: getting started on Win32 compilation

From: John Coonrod (jc@thp.org)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 18:14:24 EST

  • Next message: Dom Lachowicz: "Re: Newby: getting started on Win32 compilation"

    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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