- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jun 1998 16:06:54 -0400
- To: Jeff Cochand <cochand@pobox.com>, www-lib@w3.org
At 11:52 6/4/98 -0400, Jeff Cochand wrote: >>>> 1. Is there a clean, repeatable process for compiling libwww & ComLine on WinNT? (More details of my experience are at the bottom of this message). <<<< No, because there are no clean, repeatable way of giving out makefiles on WinNT. This is a sad state of affairs, but the best thing in order to compile libwww is to use the MSVC make files that come with the code. >>>> 2. I want to capture and save MyYahoo news headlines that I typically view thru Netscape. I'm thinking I could use this command line browser to save the headlines to a file, parse that file, and enter the headlines in the db. Would libwww/ComLine make this any easier than doing the same type of thing by somehow automatically saving an html page via Netscape or IE? I want to automate this process to run on a daily basis. <<<< You can indeed use the comline tool for doing this. >>>> I've tried to compile the Library and ComLine on my up to date NT 4.0 & VC++ machine. I'm a very experienced Unix & NT developer, but have had all kinds of problems totalling 3 hours of thus far non-productive effort. Maybe you can help? First I tried to compile ComLine using nmake at the dos prompt. I went thru a series of gyrations - setting up paths, commenting out seemingly unnecessary includes (sysdep.h I think), etc. I then realized I needed to compile the Library first. I started with nmake on that & had a similar experience. I think I got pretty close - a Bin directory was created with www core, dll, stream, and utils dll & ilk files in it. Then it started complaining about not finding include files (STAT.H). Eventually I got into VC++, let it create a project based on your makefile and got to the point of: <<<< Please read the instructions at http://www.w3.org/INSTALL.html#Windows for how to compile on Windows. >>>> ..\..\External\zlib.lib : fatal error LNK1106: invalid file or disk full: cannot seek to 0xb5a <<<< I think zlib may have been corrupted by my CVS - I have told it that it is a binary file but it may still have some problems. If it is corrupt then please get the zlib files directly from http://www.winimage.com/zLibDll/ >>>> I have an External\zlib.lib. The disk isn't full, I guess the file is invalid. I bagged out thinking maybe my hacking of the makefile screwed something up. I started over, clean unzip (which doesn't smoothly unzip BTW), right into VC++ with Library\src\windows. For some reason I get the error: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ".\../../../Bin/Debug\wwwdll.dll <<<< Sounds like the file is in use - are you compiling or running the program? What do you mean that it doesn't unzip smoothly? >>>> Obviously I got past this the first time, as a bin\debug dir exists as described above, however I've lost confidence in the entire build process you guys have set up. I'm going thru a lot of hassle & am skeptical of w3c/ComLine ever doing the job for me. Any advice? <<<< Henrik -- Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/People/Frystyk
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