Re: Abiword problem when compiling

From: Mark Gilbert (markgilbert@hotpop.com)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 03:40:45 EST

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    Garr, see, the links below are indeed for the most current instructions,
    but HEAD (1.1.x) does not require psiconv, while STABLE (1.0.x) does.

    Yes, I would have spoken up sooner, but I just now got back my outgoing
    mail capability.

    -MG

    On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 10:54, Kenneth J. Davis wrote:
    > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 15:31:23 +0100 (GMT+01:00) David Cypers <dcyjcs@mail.be> wrote:
    >
    > DC>
    > DC> > >>At the risk of pointing out the obvious, do you in fact have
    > DC> psiconv as
    > DC> > >>well as abi, abidistfiles, expat, etc.?
    > DC> > >>
    > DC> > >>Where exactly did you get AbiWord?
    > DC> > >>
    > DC> > Frank,
    > DC> >
    > DC> > Good point, as there are multiple ways, each of them have a
    > DC> different
    > DC> > number of files.
    > DC> >
    > DC> > I've tried to follow the build instructions of
    > DC> > http://abiword.pchasm.org/source/docs/build/BUILD.html . If anybody
    > DC> has
    > DC> > a more recent version, please help me.
    >
    > It should still be the latest, though you can also view it from:
    > (updated nightly)
    > http://abiword.pchasm.org/source/cvs/abiword-cvs/abi/docs/build/BUILD.html
    > (updated constantly)
    > http://www.abisource.com/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=abi/docs/build/BUILD.TXT&rev=&root=/cvsroot
    > and there is also my build docs with are very similar
    > http://abiword.pchasm.org/source/docs/abi2build.html
    >
    >
    > DC> >
    > DC> > First, I've checked out the latest version, but that version had a
    > DC> > compile problem.
    >
    > Assuming its similar to
    > *** No rule to make target`/tinderbox/abi/src/WIN32_1.3.2_i386_OBJ/obj/xap_Win32FrameImpl.obj',
    > then sounds about right.
    >
    > DC> >
    > DC> > Then I moved to a consistent tarball (I thought maybe someone was in
    >
    > which tarball? The 1.1.2 tarballs from sourceforge should compile,
    > whereas the HEAD abi tarball on abiword.pchasm.org will fail until the
    > Windows build is fixed (it was broke in the recent refactoring changes).
    >
    > DC> the process of checking in files). Same build exception and looking at the
    > DC> > Tinderbox, it seems normal.
    > DC> > Finally I moved to the stable release taken from
    > DC> > http://abiword.pchasm.org/source/ where the libjpeg, popt,
    > DC> >
    > DC> > However, I can only see abi, abiwdistfiles, wv, abiword-docs and
    > DC> > abiword-plugins, so I reused libjpeg, popt, libpng, zlib, expat,
    > DC> libiconv.
    >
    > Yes, the remaining ones are the same for HEAD and STABLE so you
    > should get them from the section labeled 'HEAD and SHARED'
    >
    > DC> >
    > DC> > Now I see that I forgot to checkout psiconv. I've taken the psiconv
    > DC> > from the same directory and compilation works further. However:
    > DC> >
    > DC> > ap_Win32Frame.cpp(496) : error C2437: 'm_bFirstAfterFocus' : already
    > DC> > initialized
    > ...
    >
    > seems you get further than my tinderbox for stable, need to double check
    > with a fresh build & reboot.
    >
    > DC> >
    > DC> > Any suggestions ?
    >
    > I would recommend you get either the 1.1.2 tarball from sourceforge,
    > or get the abi module from cvs from a couple days back; my last
    > successful build was 11/22, but part of that was dns issues
    > (my dns servers seem to fail to resolve *.abisource.com, luckily
    > I have my HOSTS file, just needed to add cvs.abisource.com to it :-)
    > You can also get an earlier STABLE tarball from sourceforge, I built
    > both HEAD and STABLE just a few weeks ago for Windows, so if you
    > go for not quite the latest you should be ok.
    >
    > DC> >
    > DC> > Kind Regards.
    > DC> >
    >
    > I'll try later today or tommorrow (if no one else has done so) to
    > get the Windows Head build back going and update the tarballs on
    > my site (pchasm.org). I really need to do some work for my FreeDOS
    > distribution 1st.
    >
    > If you need any other help, let me know and I will try my best,
    > Jeremy
    > jeremyd@computer.org
    >
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