I thought I would give this a try myself. The "Compiling Ocropus On Windows" page is pretty good, although I found a couple of steps aren't quite right (and some of the steps fail, but I'll post those details separately). May I suggest some clarifications:
1) >Download and install MSys using the installer If your build directory has spaces in you need to use the DOS style representation of the path when telling MSys where the MinGW install is, e.g. in the fstab C:/PROGRA~1/MinGW /mingw You can find out the DOS style name using "dir /x". Better still, use directories with no spaces! 2) >Build and install static version of ZLib using For all these steps you need to change into the directory for that library, e.g. zlib-1.2.3, THEN run the ./configure line. If the ./ configure command fails then maybe you've downloaded the wrong package? 3) >Download libpng (direct download: 1.2.29) >Build and install static version of libpng 1.2.29 is not available any more, so I tried libpng-1.2.35-src.zip. Unfortunately the ./configure step failed. The "-bin" and "-lib" versions either didn't have everything I needed to build it, or the build failed too. I'll post the error separately. 4) >Using MinGW It's worth pointing out how long the steps are expected to take. My attempts to ./configure some of the libraries (e.g. libpng and libtiff) took a good 15 minutes each, which means downloading and building all this stuff takes an elapsed time of around 2 hours (for somebody with a decent working understanding of Windows and Unix). On Apr 10, 10:08 am, computer <[email protected]> wrote: > I would really like to install ocropus on Windows to try it out. Can > somebody make a Windows install available on the downloads page (where > install could be just unzipping a ZIP file - it doesn't have to be > fancy)? > > I'll watch this thread with interest... > > On Apr 9, 4:51 am, 74yrsold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Jonathan, > > Trust your are attempting an installation on windows using latest > > version (0.4) ocropus? > > I wish you success in your good mission. > > With regards, > > -sriranga(76yrsold) > > > On Apr 8, 8:58 pm, jhung <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am about to attempt an installation on Windows. I will let you know > > > how it goes. > > > > - Jonathan. > > > > --- > > > Fluid Project > > > ATRC - University of Toronto > > > > On Apr 7, 10:26 am, "[email protected]" > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi , i am new in ocropus, i tried to install ocropus application in my > > > > windows xp machine as per folowing links > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus/web/compiling-ocropus-on-windows > > > > > but i am very confused so please any one help intallation proceture > > > > step by step instructions send me link or mail me > > > > > Regards > > > > K.Nandha --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ocropus" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
