I'm sure I can find most of these answers if I search hard enough but I think we might benefit from discussing it here so we can fix the build docs that come with AbiWord.
I've just got my new machine and installed Windows 2000 with Visual Studio 6 and cygwin; and Red Hat 7.3. First I looked for nightly source tarballs. http://www.abisource.com/developers/download.phtml Has a heading "Nightly source" but it's actually for nightly builds. I found and downloaded nightly source tarballs here: http://abiword.pchasm.org/source/ It's a handy site Jeremy but at least in the separate tarballs some things are missing. Most important is fribidi. But there are also other sections in CVS which don't have tarballs here. I didn't check the all-in-one tarball. You might want to check this out and bring it up to date. Marc's page here: http://pino.frontisterion.nl/uwog/abiword/ also seems to be missing fribidi and other stuff from CVS in his "AbiWord Source Packages" section. I can't find any useful mention in the build docs as to what I need as far as fribidi - do I need a special version, must I use the CVS one? My Red Hat 7.3 doesn't even seem to come with fribidi. I also couldn't find anything regarding freetype, pango, xft, and fontconfig. Do I need any special libraries for these? Do I need special versions? Do the needs differ between building on Linux/Unix and Windows? Windows: Is the new mingw32 build documented somewhere? What do I need for this build? How is it related to cygwin? I seem to recall there being project and/or workspace files for Visual Studio. Did I imagine this, have they been removed, or where can I find them? Can we even currently build AbiWord within Visual Studio? Is the cygwin + Visual C++ compiler still the usual way to build under Windows or has the mingw32 way replaced it? Does autogen + configure work for cygwin at all? Should the documentation specifically say that it doesn't work? nextgen seemed to work for "abiword-plugins" for me, but autgen didn't work for "abi". autogen + configure give me these errors on cygwin: autogen : possibly undefined macro dnl configure : line 1: OS_RELEASE command not found PKG_CHECK_MODULES not defined make clean; make realclean; make - without using autogen and configure starts to work usign the VC++ compiler but ends this way: make : zlib : Cannot open compiler generated file C:\src\WIN32_1.3.12_i386_OBJ\zlib\adler32.obj Building on Linux fails for me because I don't have fribidi yet. I'm sure I've overlooked some things which are in the documentation so please forgive me. Let's try to get the docs in the tarball, the docs on the website and the build systems in sync. Hope this is taken in the constructive way I meant it (: Also if anybody has some tips on trying to hack AbiWord and keep somewhat up-to-date with CVS without an internet conneciton on my machine, I'd really appreciate it! Andrew Dunbar. ===== http://linguaphile.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/translator.pl http://www.abisource.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
