I was able to compile evince with minimal patching. I can set the backends
directory with an environment variable. I have all the dependencies built.
Now I build denemo. I will probably have to patch denemo for the environt
variable to be set.

Jeremiah

On Jul 12, 2017 12:19 PM, "Richard Shann" <rich...@rshann.plus.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 11:39 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > I have a hard time with this. In gub I can upgrade gtk because it
> > requires me to upgrade gettext. This dependency would not upgrade. It
> > gave me an error about undefined symbols with __imp_ . There was a
> > bunch of these. I goggled it and had something to did not find a
> > working solution. If I was able to upgrade mingw-w64, I may be able to
> > get this to compile. Unfortunately mingw-w64 is like "wired" up into
> > gubs framework making it very difficult (for me anyway) to upgrade.
> > In MXE, I have everything compile but Evince, and fluidsynth. Evince
> > needs poppler to compile but I need to fix it because it is installing
> > in the wrong directory.  I have not written a MXE make file for
> > librubberband yet. I may have started it.
> >
> >
> > In Windows msys2, I managed to compile most of denemo's dependencies
> > but the problems was the files were mixed up on different prefixes
> > (mingw64/usr/lib vs. msys/usr/lib etc...)  and not always compatible
> > with each other. This means I would have to find all the make files
> > and get them to compile for mingw-w64. This is what is needed for
> > distribution. It will compile with msys2 libs but this, according to
> > the docs, is not suitable for distribution.
> >
> >
> > I am currently back to working on MXE.
>
> That sounds tough ... libevince is the most worrying, as it has some way
> of finding the PDF backend which may not work even when it is built on
> MXE :(
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
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