A Divendres 07 Juliol 2006 00:26, Krzysztof Kowalczyk va escriure: > On 7/6/06, Vincent Torri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote: > > > On 7/6/06, Albert Astals Cid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> A Dijous 06 Juliol 2006 17:30, Thomas Zühlke va escriure: > > >> > Hi *, > > >> > > > >> > I try to write a PDF plugin for the Firefox browser for Windows xp, > > >> > because not all PDF features are supported by the Adobe PDF plugin. > > >> > The feature i need is the annotation of some text of the PDF file. > > >> > > > >> > Is it possible to compile the poppler library under windows (VS > > >> > 2003) and show some PDF files with it? > > >> > > >> Yes > > > > > > That's not really true. You would have to spend at least a day or 2 > > > making portability fixes and writing project files for VS. > > > > Isn't it possible to compile poppler with msys/mingw ? (so without > > ressource file, using autofoo stuff) > > The original question was about compiling with VS. > > As to your question, I'm sure anything is possible given enough work. > I doubt it will compile out-of-the box. I can't even compile latest > CVS version of poppler on generic Ubuntu because autogen.sh fails > miserably, so chances that it'll just work under cygwin or mingw are > slim.
That is what i call a sucky attitude, where's the bug report? It works perfectly here using kubuntu, if you don't make fuss about it not working is probably noone will fix it. Albert > > But in the end: why would you want to do it? msys/mingw is good for > cheap ports of Unix code to windows, when there is absolutely no other > option. Even when they work, the resulting binary is usually way below > Windows standards from the user point of view and the developer > experience is much worse. > > Windows developers are comfortable with Visual Studio and all the nice > things it has to offer, integrated debugger being the most important > thing. For most Windows developers setting up msys\mingw and learning > a whole new toolchain is too much effort for the benefit and it's not > as efficient as working from within Visual Studio. > > -- kjk > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
