On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 08:44:10PM +0100, Jim.George wrote: > > This is my first attempt at porting sane to cygwin. > > Good luck! I guess the main work will be to write low-level functions > for SCSI, parport and USB access. > Thanks although I'm going to need assistance from developers/users with windows systems and SCSI and or USB solutions as I _only_ have a parallel printer port flatbed scanner.
> > So far everything has been going smoothely, until I get to make > > install when it complains that it can't find a file (see attached). > > > > Could someone clear this up for me? I have compiled it with and > > without the dynamic libraries but to no avail. > > > ln: creating symbolic link `libsane..1*' to `sane/libsane-dll..1*': No such > > file or directory > > backend/Makefile is trying to create the symbolic links (e.g. > libsane.so.1 -> libsane.so.1.0.7). The code starts in > backend/Makefile.in at these lines: > > @# Assume the dll name without any versions is last > @dllend=../tools/libtool-get-dll-ext libsane-dll.la; \ > > Have a look at ../tools/libtool-get-dll-ext, maybe you can add a check > for Windows and/or fix the detection. I don't know if those links are > necessary or work at all on Windows. If I remember correctly, they > don't even have a real ln command. > > For testing ,just disable this part of the Makefile. > > Bye, > Henning > > Thanks Henning, I'm sure I'll be keeping in touch on this one (if I don't give it up as too much for me ;) ) Jim
