You're better off talking to Mike Pritchett or Jordi Mas, since they work on the Win32 stuff explicitly. Their names should be easily findable in the source.
Dom --- John Coonrod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dom: > > 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 > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > /Dr. John Coonrod, Vice President, The Hunger > Project > 15 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010, > www.thp.org/ > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
