If anyone is sufficiently expert with VC++2008 succeeded in compiling in WinXP, requested to post the details of how to do (step by step procedure to be followed for compiling in VC++2008) for benefit of other users to perform testing and feedback. With Regards, -sriranga(76yrsold)
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Ray Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > *This is a plea for help!* > Anyone interested in seeing 3.00 this side of August? > > Here is the status: > > Linux: > Preliminary alpha release compiles and runs. It is slower than 2.04, due to > the new page layout analysis, but the benefits are supposed to outweigh > that: > Page layout analysis. > *Lots* of languages. > more... > In theory the linux version should compile and link happily with leptonica, > given the right combination of apt-gets. Not tested yet, as I have been > bogged down with windows: > > Windows: > Preliminary alpha release also compiles and runs *without leptonica only*. > DLL is broken due to API change. > > I only have very little time left before I will be away for a while, but I > was hoping to post a pre-alpha version to svn for people to try. > > The problem is that there is no chance of getting the windows version to > work with leptonica any time soon, and without it the flagship page layout > analysis won't work properly. > > Here is the problem: > Leptonica depends on the following lower-level libraries: > libjpeg, > libpng, > libtiff, > zlib. > > DLLs for these are all available for windows, but they are all compiled to > use msvcrt.dll. > Tesseract and Leptonica will not work unless they use the same crt > (C-runtime) as the libraries, and VC++2008, which everyone wants to use will > not (without jumping through more hoops than I can ask an average tesseract > user to do) build anything to use msvcrt.dll. You must use either a > statically linked crt, or use msvcr90.dll, a newer version that contains > .net stuff that tesseract doesn't care about. > > *What I need are statically linked versions of the 4 libraries above > compiled to use a statically linked crt (/MT option) and possibly their > dependencies.* > Alternatively, libraries built for the new msvcr90.dll (/MD) would do, but > that would mean everybody has to have the VC++2008 distributables. It might > help dll users though, when it is eventually working again. > > *This is not an easy task, as most of the sources for these libraries > don't have vcproj/sln projects with which to build them.* > If anyone is sufficiently expert with VC++2008 and building other people's > code, and understands what I am talking about, I would be grateful for the > help. > The other viable alternative would be to compile letonica without image i/o > at all, and leave tesseract still unable to read anything other than > compressed tiff. > > Ray. > > PS A good place to get all these libraries is: > http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/*.htm, where * is tiff, jpeg, > libpng, or zlib. > > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 5:49 AM, javolo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Ditto! I'm working on a pretty cool OCR application, and I'd happily >> help testing for access to the 3.0 beta or release candidate. >> I can test on Ubuntu and Windows XP. >> >> Thanks... >> >> On May 4, 3:07 pm, "Rob H." <[email protected]> wrote: >> > But seriously... I'm writing a fairly interesting application using >> > Tesseract for my client: Gulfstream Aerospace. >> > I have no problem testing 3.0, especially if I can get some >> > performance gains. >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
