On 18 March 2011 11:44, Maarten Bosmans <[email protected]> wrote: > 2011/3/18 Stefano Emilio Campanini <[email protected]>: >> On 17 March 2011 13:40, Maarten Bosmans <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Stefano Emilio Campanini <stefano.campanini <at> tinvention.net> writes: >>>> To make it easy, I've made those dependencies available as pre-compiled >>>> files. You need to download http://windevlibs.googlecode.com/files/ext.zip >>>> and unzip under 'ext' directory. Those are header files and static >>>> libraries >>>> for freetype, libjpeg and zlib. " >>>> >>>> I cannot understand where to put the ext.zip contents ? Where I put >>>> these contents ando/or how can I tell the compiler to use these >>>> contents ? >>> >>> Not wanting to sound rude, but you don't seem to understand the basics of >>> building software using the GNU autotools. In that case the above comment >>> about >>> prefering the ready-build packages seems relevant. >> >> You are right, I have not experience using these tools, my background >> is Java/PHP ... no C, C++ and GNU tools. >> >>> In any case, my experience is that building using mingw on windows is a >>> pain and >>> that cross-compiling (using the same mingw32+autotools+gcc toolchain) on >>> Linux >>> is much easier, everything just works. >> >> Unfortunately I need to have poppler ( or something similar ) working >> on M$ windows machine. >> Do you mean that I can compile on Linux a package that runs on windows >> ? It sound strange for me... > > That's exactly what I meant. Cross-compiling open source software on > Linux is easy, because the whole toolchain is just there. Compare that > with the difficulty to get mingw/msys running on Windows. I usually > set the configure prefix to a samba mount of my windows pc, so that > after a make install the binaries are ready on the windows pc to be > tested. >
Well, I will try this way. Thank you very much Maarten !! Bye Stefano _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
