From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Jan 24 2003 - 18:19:18 EST
You're better off talking to Mike Pritchett or Jordi
Mas, since they work on the Win32 stuff explicitly.
Their names should be easily findable in the source.
Dom
--- John Coonrod <jc@thp.org> wrote:
> Dom:
>
> Thanks - I actually am interesting in writing code -
> I'm an old time
> assembly-code type, but c is no particular problem.
> Although being able
> to compile a copy of abiword that works seems to be
> a good place to
> start, and I had hoped the 1.1.3 release tarball
> would compile.
>
> Getting abiword to 2 will be quite a triumph for the
> free software
> world, and perhaps I could contribute.
>
> I'm using msys and mingw now, and it ran astonishing
> far this time
> before crashing:
>
> make[4]: Entering directory
> `/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/main/win'
> Building on [MINGW32] with [LicensedTrademarks:Off
> Debug:Off BiDi:LTR
> Pango:Off XML:expat Pspell:Off Scripting:Off].
> stdout: No error
> Using `c:\MinGW\bin\gcc -E -xc -DRC_INVOKED
> -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/wp/ap/win
> -Ic:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win Win32Main.rc'
> Using popen to read preprocessor output
> c:\MinGW\bin\windres.exe:
>
c:/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/af/xap/win/xap_Win32Res_DlgLanguage.rc2:49:
>
> parse error
> make[4]: ***
>
[/c/abiword-1.1.3/abi/src/MINGW32_1.0.8_i386_EXP_OBJ/obj/Win32Mainrc.o]
>
> Error 1
>
> The rc2 has been around since 10/19/02 and line 49
> looks immently
> parseable, the Win32Main.rc file look unsurprising,
> so I'm a bit baffled
> - but I would expect these are pretty typical
> problems in this kind of
> project that I should learn how to sort out. Any
> suggestion where to look?
>
> - John
>
> Dom Lachowicz wrote:
>
> >Unless you're feeling like actually writing code
> for
> >the project, I highly recommend trying out the
> nightly
> >builds.
> >
> >http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/
> >
> >Particularly:
>
>http://abiword.pchasm.org/builds/nightly/win32/setup_abiword.exe
> >
> >Or follow the instructions for msys and mingw.
> >
> >Best of luck,
> >Dom
> >
> >--- John Coonrod <jc@thp.org> wrote:
> >
> >ah... now I see... they recommend only using msys
> with
> >mingw rather
> >than cygwin with mingw - ok, I'll try that.
> >
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