Re: Compiling Amaya on Windows (AmayaWX version)

Please remove me from this list.

Many thanks,

Laurence

On 10/10/06, Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
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>
> Hello Irene,
>
> Many thanks for your help.
>
> At 19:53 06/10/05, Irene Vatton wrote:
> >
> >On Thursday 28 September 2006 11:06, Martin Duerst wrote:
> >> At 16:36 06/09/25, Irene Vatton wrote:
> >
> >> >Win-Compiling.html is now updated.
> >>
> >> One more little detail: everything is alphabetically ordered,
> >> which makes checking easy, except for str\str.dsp, which should
> >> be moved up two places.
> >
> >Okay. It's done now
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> >> This problem is still there. Saving the files as app1.dsp, and
> >> so on, seems to work.
> >
> >I know why this occurs. I'll fix that in the incoming release.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
>
> >> The next problem is the following:
> >> A long list of errors was related to the fact that a bunch of files
> >> (actually the whole folder) were missing in the idn module of libwww
> >> (libwww/modules/idn). These files all are from idnkit
> >> (http://www.nic.ad.jp/ja/idn/idnkit/download/). I only knew because
> >> it was me who added IDN (Internationalized Domain Name) support to
> >> Amaya a few years ago. Apparently, the Windows makefiles still keep
> >> that information (great!), but the actual files got lost. It would
> >> be great if this functionality could be fully integrated into Amaya;
> >> if you need some help, please tell me.
> >
> >I'm not able to update any libwww source file today.
> >As I remember, there is no makefile for IDN.
>
> Yes, this is true. Looking at examples for other IDN modules,
> it doesn't seem too difficult to produce one, but on the other
> hand, autoconf and friends are just totally scary, at least to me.
>
>
> >> The next problem I got into was when compiling
> libwww/modules/idn/util.c,
> >> the compiler reported a lot of errors in various .h files (starting
> >> with winnt.h) that were part of the compiler's installation
> >> (among them a fatal error that it can't handle a certain level
> >> of union nesting). I got around this by #undef WIN32 at the start
> >> of libwww/modules/idn/util.c. I don not remember such problems
> >> the last time I used idnkit some years ago.
> >
> >Distributed .h files are those generated on a linux platform. That
> probably
> >explains why you have problems.
>
> Well, the WIN32 #define in util.c only is used to add something to
> the registry, which isn't necessary if idnkit is used as a library.
>
> >> After that, there were a few more warnings:
> >> d:\amaya-compile\amaya\thotlib\view\changeabsbox.c(3249) : warning
> C4101:
> >> local variable 'pMainAb' never used
> >> d:\amaya-compile\amaya\thotlib\dialogue\fontconfig.c(403) : warning
> C4101:
> >> local variable 'fname1' never used
> >> d:\amaya-compile\amaya\thotlib\dialogue\fontconfig.c(404) : warning
> C4101:
> >> local variable 'word1' never used
> >>
> >> And then one fatal error:
> >> d:\amaya-compile\wxwidgets\src\jpeg\jpeglib.h(24) : fatal error C1083:
> >> cannot open include file '../src/jpeg/jconfig.h': No such file or
> directory
> >> (this is when compiling jpeghandler.c in printlib)
> >
> >My printlib.dsp looks for ../../../wxWidgets/src/jpeg/
> >and the jconfig.h is there.
>
> That seems to match exactly what was in the project settings:
>    /I "..\..\..\wxWidgets\src\jpeg"
>
> The printlib project, printlib.dsp, is currently at this location:
>     D:\Amaya-compile\Amaya\WindowsWX\printlib\printlib.dsp
>
> With the above relative path, we get to
>     D:\Amaya-compile\wxWidgets\src\jpeg\jconfig.h
> which would be okay. However, it just doesn't work.
>
> The source file, jpeghandler, is at
>     D:\Amaya-compile\Amaya\Thotlib\image\jpeghandler.c
> That is at the same depth, and so would not change anything,
> even if includes are relative to that location.
>
> To move on, I have just used the absolute path in jpeghandler.c:
>     #include "D:\Amaya-compile\wxWidgets\src\jpeg\jconfig.h"
> but of course you can't but that into the distribution.
>
> A similar problem occurred in jpeglib.h. Again, jconfig.h
> isn't found. This time the source reads:
>
> #include "../src/jpeg/jconfig.h"                /* widely used
> configuration options */
>
> Again, I replaced this with the full path:
> #include "D:\Amaya-compile\wxWidgets\src\jpeg\jconfig.h"                /*
> widely used configuration options */
>
> At least for me, that did the job.
>
> With that, I got to the Compiler, which feals great.
>
> When following the instructions at
> http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Win-Compiling.html,
> which say
> 5. Choose "File/Build" (or F7), to start these compilers and generate
> .STR, .PRS, .TRA, .APP, and .h files needed for building Amaya.
>
> I unfortunately get the following error message:
>
>     Build process aborted because of errors
>
> It's difficult to say what the reason for this error is.
> Any hints for what to check/fix are highly appreciated.
>
> With kind regards,      Martin.
>
> #-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
> #-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp      mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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