Hi Steve, > Is this also a friend of yours? If so, is there any chance you could > get hold of the build directory for me? I'd like to work on this over > the weekend if I can.
Yes, he's a friend of mine, too, but getting hold of the build directory would be difficult. He's a designer, his collaboration in this consists of having given Dan physical access to an old Mac of his to set the root password, and to switch it on when Dan calls him. He's often out of town, that's why Mac builds sometimes are delayed somewhat... Frankly, I don't know anything about Macs (or C++), so it would be difficult even if I had the time to go there, sorry. However, another housemate said Dan planned to return tomorrow night, so I'll try to remember to tell him to contact you. I think he'll be quite happy somebody who knows C++ is willing to contribute. :) *But*, if you want to get started already, I'll let you in to some inner workings of swfmill I happen to know about and that might make implementing new tags much easier, and would give you something to work on until Dan can help: You probably have noticed already that he is a big fan of xslt. Some tags need additional work, but most of the reader/writer code for the individual tags is actually generated out of an XML description of them. I don't have any specs, but I poked around a bit in the sources via trac, and found the directory where they are in: http://mirror1.cvsdude.com/trac/osflash/swfmill/browser/tags/swfmill-0.2.6/src/xsl?rev=117 If you look at source.xml, you'll find the definition of the tags (there could be others somewhere, though). It looks like you could fairly easily figure out how that XML dialect works if you compare them to the specs. That way you could get started writing the XML for tags you would like to have, and maybe, if they aren't some of those nasty ones, the C++ code could be generated out of that description. That should accelerate the process significantly... Pretty smart, huh? :) Mark On 4/7/06, Steve Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark, > > > > I can't see any dependancy on sswf in swfmill. I think Dan just used > > > Alexi's reference. > > > > Yes, he doesn't like the license terms for the original specification. > > If they don't bother you, the v8 specs have just been released. > > I'm happy with the license terms (having already agreed to them for > something unrelated) so I'll use the official reference. My only beef > is the requirement for the full Adobe Reader :o( > > > > No problem for me since I'm Mac-based :o) However, I'm having an issue > > > getting swfmill to compile on my machine - something to do with static > > > dependancies. I've contacted Dan to see if he has a special Mac OS X > > > build script. > > > > Mac versions get built on a friend's Mac, so there is a special Mac > > setup, but don't expect a reply before Sunday at the earliest (he's on > > a vacation, not sure when he will be back). > > Is this also a friend of yours? If so, is there any chance you could > get hold of the build directory for me? I'd like to work on this over > the weekend if I can. > > > Erixtekila has experience building it for the Mac, though. > > Great. In that case, Erixtekila, did you ever run into the following > error when running make: > > /usr/bin/ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt0.o > > I looked around on Google and found a reference to the following > document on the Apple developer site warning against static linking: > > http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1118.html > > I can download and build the required lib but I don't want to do that > if it isn't required. > > -- > Steve Webster > http://dynamicflash.com > > _______________________________________________ > swfmill mailing list > swfmill@osflash.org > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org > -- http://snafoo.org/ _______________________________________________ swfmill mailing list swfmill@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/swfmill_osflash.org
