Thanks to some makefiles which I have received offline I can now compile. It fails though during linking, I think:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpdf > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > make: *** [pdf2xml] Error 1 Anyone can tell me what this means? Peter Greg Hellings wrote: > I'm running into significant challenges building it with their > Makefiles, mainly related to them using some version of GString that > results in either 1) not including the file the declares it or, 2) > including a file which does not declare the proper GString type. > > Beyond that, there are more errors all over the place in the code. It > must be expecting a very old version of the dependent libraries OR the > developers did not leave CVS in a useful state when they abandoned it. > > My guess is, use the Windows binary and pray that it actually works. > > --Greg > > On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Peter von Kaehne <[email protected]> wrote: >> A user of our software advised me of this piece of software which I >> think might occasionally come handy: >> >> http://www.mobipocket.com/dev/pdf2xml/ >> >> It appears that it can deal with embedded fonts and produces apparently >> excellently structured output. I have unfortunately not managed to >> compile it despite thinking it should be straightforward. >> >> There is no make file, just a short explanation for compiling, which I >> seemingly completely misunderstood. >> >> What I did at the toplevel of the source directory was >> >> gcc -I xpdf -I xpdf/fofi -I xpdf/goo -I xpdf/xpdf -I image/zlib -I >> image/png -I /usr/include pdf2xml.cpp >> >> But this was obviously wrong. It produced a huge pile of error messages >> suggesting that it did not find all kinds of libpng related stuff. I >> have obviously installed libpoppler-dev and libpng-dev. >> >> I am aware of a whole bunch of public domain texts which are only >> published in PDF format but would suddenly become accessible to us. >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >> > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
