Hello. I've been trying to compile and install the wv library. This is the most current version of a project formerly known as mswordview---a set of conversion utilities for MS Word documents. Mswordview is packaged for potato and for woody but in a relatively old version which handles only MS Word 8 files. The thing about its successor wv (I downloaded version 0.5.44 from the home page) is that it also converts Word 6,7,8 and 9 files---a big step forward clearly. It converts to HTML and to LaTeX. I would really love to have a better solution to the dreaded Word attachments than catdoc or word2x.
I'm having trouble compiling the program though (on an up-to-date potato system with a 2.2.15 kernel). The problem seems to be one of missing (or older) libraries. Running the configure script yields this: configure: warning: Could not find gdwmf library or some of its components: libwv *will* build but will not have wmf to png support: see README configure: warning: Could not find ttf library or some of its components: libwv *will* build but will not have text in its wmf to png support: see README configure: warning: Could not find xpm library or some of its components: libwv *will* build but will not have full wmf to png support: see README The program compiles and installs without complaint following these warnings, but produces a segmentation fault when called. I have the libwmf(-dev), freetype2(-dev), libpng2(-dev), xpm4g(-dev) libraries installed, as well as ImageMagick. Has anyone else tried to compile this program? Any advice to offer? Thanks very much, Jim McCloskey
