Thanks - I actually am interesting in writing code - I'm an old time assembly-code type, but c is no particular problem. Although being able to compile a copy of abiword that works seems to be a good place to start, and I had hoped the 1.1.3 release tarball would compile.
Getting abiword to 2 will be quite a triumph for the free software world, and perhaps I could contribute.
I'm using msys and mingw now, and it ran astonishing far this time before crashing:
make[4]: Entering directory `/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/main/win'
Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off Debug:Off BiDi:LTR Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
stdout: No error
Using `c:\MinGW\bin\gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/ap/win -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win Win32Main.rc'
Using popen to read preprocessor output
c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe: c:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win/xap_Win32Res_DlgLanguage.rc2:49: parse error
make[4]: *** [/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.8_i386_EXP_OBJ/obj/Win32Mainrc.o] Error 1
The rc2 has been around since 10/19/02 and line 49 looks immently parseable, the Win32Main.rc file look unsurprising, so I'm a bit baffled - but I would expect these are pretty typical problems in this kind of project that I should learn how to sort out. Any suggestion where to look?
- John
Dom Lachowicz wrote:
Unless you're feeling like actually writing code for the project, I highly recommend trying out the nightly builds.http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/ Particularly: http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/win32/setup_abiword.exe Or follow the instructions for msys and mingw. Best of luck, Dom --- John Coonrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ah... now I see... they recommend only using msys with mingw rather than cygwin with mingw - ok, I'll try that. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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