Andrew Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 9/26/2002 1:28:10 AM: .. >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.
It used to point to nightly source, and if the link to my site is updated (formally on www.darklogic.org now on a dedicated site abiword.pchasm.org) then it could still be considered refering to nightly source. :-) > >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 I forgot to add it, but it is there now. I suppose no one has needed this before? as I try to make changes as I notice them or people point out the need to me. >which don't have tarballs here. I didn't check the Which ones? all the Windows ones [except previously fribidi] required to build AbiWord.exe should be there. I can add others. >all-in-one tarball. You might want to check this out I think my site isn't very clear, all the cvs modules are only available separately (due partially to original file size limits and still so only necessary modules need to be updated). The link just points to the directory with the tarballs, at one point the index page only listed the abi module, so you had to go there for the rest of them, but I think I include them all in the list now. >and bring it up to date. Let me know of any other modules to add (excluding abispell or any other really big ones). I also added brief build overview doc containing some of my own notes with improvements (especially for the Unix side) updated [ok replaced/taken] from Dom's document. http://abiword.pchasm.org/abiword/source/docs/abi2build.html .. > >Windows: >Is the new mingw32 build documented somewhere? >What do I need for this build? How is it related to >cygwin? Don't know, haven't used and don't plan on it. I have too many compilers installed as it is to add another. Though at some point I would like to add OpenWatcom to the supported list of compilers (but that is more of a wish list item and not even on my todo list yet). >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 Yes, this is the optional MSVC module. I personally never use these (they can only be used by MSVC 6, and perhaps imported into MSVC 7). If you get them from my site, you will need to convert the \n to \r\n or MSVC will not properly load them. Other more active Windows developers do use these I think. >Studio? Is the cygwin + Visual C++ compiler still >the usual way to build under Windows or has the >mingw32 >way replaced it? Not yet. The official builds are still done using cygwin tools + MSVC but that may change in the future. > >Does autogen + configure work for cygwin at all? .. I tried once I think, but it didn't work, but that was a while ago, so it may work now. > >make clean; make realclean; make - without using >autogen and configure starts to work usign the VC++ >compiler but ends this way: You should be able to go straight to make on Windows. > >make : zlib : Cannot open compiler generated file >C:\src\WIN32_1.3.12_i386_OBJ\zlib\adler32.obj Try deleting any .crashed files and .cache (or whatever configure creates) and retrying. Usually this solves the odd compile problems on Windows. Also make sure you are using the latest cygwin tools, and stay with the one you find works, as the AbiWord build is a fair stress test for cygwin tools and any instability will result in failed builds (I found this out the first time I tried to build AbiWord, I had to to try 3 or more versions of cygwin to get one that was stable on my computer, Note: since then cygwin has improved). .. >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! Working on AbiWord without being able to do a cvs update just isn't as much fun;-) I never could get my network card to work under QNX so I could play with AbiWord there. > >Andrew Dunbar. > Jeremy
