i built it this morning on Win98 and it works fine (but it does
push the limits of Win98 a bit -- it only locked up the machine
twice -- i've done it other times without problem).
[1] grab zlib, libpng, and abi from our site and expand them
as peers in a directory.
[2] create a bash shell with the MSVC environment vars already
defined (you'll probably need to bump up the environment
limit) [when i get back to my Win98 machine, i'll try to
follow up with and/or checkin some batch files which should
help this out.] granted, this part is a little confusing, we
use bash and gnu make, but msvc (and their header files) for
the actual compile.
[3] cd to abi and type make. our makefile will do a 'up-and-over'
to build zlib and libpng for you.
hope this helps
jeff
Eric W. Sink wrote:
>
> I don't remember if AbiWord can be built on Win98 or not. We do our Win32
> builds on NT. It certainly should work, but I don't know for sure.
>
> (Bob, don't you build on Win95? Can you help?)
>
> --
>
> >I recently tried to build abiword (latest) on win98. First it kept
> >complaining that zlib was not found, so I downloaded the zlib source and
> >unpacked it in the same base dir abi was unpacked. Next it complained
> >about cc not found, so a sym-linked gcc to cc, next it complain about
> >libpng not found, then libpng not having a makefile.... (very
> >frustrated : )
> >
> >Are there build instructions out there for win98? (I'd be happy to do
> >them if I could get this stuff to compile)
> >
> >currently I'm using the linux makefile (scripts/makefile.lnx) to build
> >libpng. All goes well till ar and as try to build libpng.a. Can someone
> >explain the win98 build procedure for me
> >
> >[....]
> >//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
> >fail /home/
> >noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
> >C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:643: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
> >BFD_RELO
> >C_386_GOTPC
> >//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
> >fail /home/
> >noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
> >C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:734: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
> >BFD_RELO
> >C_386_GOTPC
> >//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
> >fail /home/
> >noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
> >C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:784: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
> >BFD_RELO
> >C_386_GOTPC
> >//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
> >fail /home/
> >noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
> >C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:805: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
> >BFD_RELO
> >C_386_GOTPC
> >//D/CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/as.exe: bfd assertion
> >fail /home/
> >noer/src/b20/comp-tools/devo/bfd/coff-i386.c:479
> >C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\cc3cuWfa.s:829: Error: Cannot represent relocation type
> >BFD_RELO
> >C_386_GOTPC
> >make[3]: *** [png.pic.o] Error 1
> >make[2]: *** [_LIBPNG_] Error 2
> >make[1]: *** [build] Error 2
> >make: *** [build] Error 2
>
> Eric W. Sink, Software Craftsman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
