That means it is looking for libpdf.* somewhere in its library directories. That may have been from the old XPDF method, so you might try looking for -lpdf in the Makefile and changing it to -lpoppler and try again?
--Greg On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Peter von Kaehne <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
