Re: Some questions and tidbits

Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:19:40 -0700


At 11:37 PM 6/8/99 -0700, Alan Young wrote:
>I'm a bit new to the list and AbiWord, so I have a couple of questions...

Welcome. :-)

>I've made changes to the Win32 makefiles so it will compile on the DEC/Compaq
>Alpha NT platform. I also have a binary compiled with Visual Studio 6.0sp2.
>Who's the lucky person that I should send these to?

Send me the patches, and I'll get them checked in. As for the binary, until
someone at Compaq sends us a box to run it on, we won't be able to do much
with it.

>Is Word97 support working? I get lots of complier warnings when
libmswordview
>is built. When I attempt to open the test file, I get the "unable to import"
>dialog box.

Yep, I get a lot of warnings there too. I believe Shaw's current plan is to
replace that functionality with a cleaner implementation, rather than trying
to fix them in place.

As for whether it's working, I just tried that document on NT and got the
same message, so something must have broken recently.

>The uninstall program is not removing the registry associations for .abw
>files. Is this a bug?

Yes.

>Also, to update the documentation I only needed these files/tools from
>Cygwin to build with:
>
> basename.exe, bash.exe, cygwinb19.dll, diff.exe, diff3.exe, echo.exe,
ls.exe,
> m4.exe, make.exe, mkdir.exe, mount.exe, mv.exe, pwd.exe, sed.exe,
> sh.exe (copy of bash.exe), tee.exe, touch.exe, true, tty.exe,umount.exe and
> uname.exe.

Thanks. Hope you don't mind that we linked to your post from the build
instructions on the website. ;-)

Paul



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