As indicated in tesseract issue 174, I have completed porting tesseract subversion revision 201 to use libtool to generate shared libraries on platforms including Mac OS X, Ubuntu 8.10, and Cygwin (and earlier versions built on FreeBSD 7.0 stable). In addition to tesseract, I have completed patches for all of leptonlib-1.58, OpenFst 20080422, iulib subversion revision 117, and ocropus subversion 1307. The patches can be found in the ocropus file area http://groups.google.com/group/ocropus/files under the name shao.d with prefix "toautotools" and date suffix "20081127.diff".
I know that tesseract is already available through various package managers, including 2.01 from Macports on Mac OS X. But now I believe there is a framework for all of these related packages to be even more available, basically just a point and click away for Unix-like platforms. Two legs of the GNU autotools were done, autoconf and automake, and now the third leg of libtool for shared libraries is done. In addition everything is now installable anywhere including a subdirectory in one's home directory that does not require administrator privileges to access. All a user has to do is set PATH for executables, CPPFLAGS for headers, and LDFLAGS for libraries, and compilation and installation just work with configure, make, and make install. (There is a price that my patches require autoreconf and get rid of existing Makefile.in's and Makefile's.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "tesseract-ocr" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tesseract-ocr?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
