Re: [Xournal-devel] Successfully compiled Xournal for Windows

[Denis A. <au...@ma...>]

Hi Dirk,

I've fixed a couple of other small issues (the cursor changing when one 
tries to write, and the default file names missing the date, among 
others) and packaged a binary release on sourceforge.net. No installer 
for now, but given how little testing has been done so far, we don't 
want to make it too user-friendly yet. Please let me know.

Performance seems to be pretty bad when writing quickly with a tablet 
pen -- was that also the case when you compiled it? (I'm using XP, 
perhaps Vista is different).

One issue I had was getting poppler to work properly -- initially I got 
crashes due to a bad interaction with libjpeg (I disabled libjpeg in my 
poppler installation to fix that), then I had trouble with garbled fonts 
(still some, but fewer after I patched the fontconfig configuration file).

Also: the CVS on sourceforge should now reflect the changes I've made, 
which include the patches you wrote to fix the bugs you reported in your 
blog.

Best,
Denis


On 10/29/2009 09:53 AM, Dirk Gerrits wrote:
> Hey Denis,
>
> Glad I could help out.  The reason I started documenting my efforts is
> because I tried and failed a few times to get Xournal to build, and
> felt like I was going in circles.  Starting from scratch by
> uninstalling everything and then writing down exactly what I did
> helped me pin down exactly what needed to be done.
>
> Releasing a binary package could be done by just bundling all the
> required DLLs together with Xournal.  This is about 8 MB (compressed),
> so I didn't want to put it on my website.  Regardless, creating a
> Windows installer seems a lot nicer for the user.  I'll have a look at
> Inno Setup, but unfortunately I'm pretty busy as well at the moment.
>
> - Dirk
>
>
> 2009/10/29 Denis Auroux<au...@ma...>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks a lot! This is very nice, and will tremendously help Xournal.
>>
>> I had high hopes that Xournal would compile under Windows after suitable
>> tweaking considering that all the necessary libraries had been ported to
>> win32, but as far as I know you're the first one to do it, or at least to
>> document your efforts in a detailed manner!
>>
>> The next few weeks are insanely busy, but I'll try to find the time to (1)
>> replicate your accomplishments and do a bit more testing, (2) insert your
>> code modifications into the CVS so that patching the source is no longer
>> needed, and maybe even (3) release a binary package if it turns out that
>> just sticking all the files together in some directory will work; otherwise
>> I'll have to dig into Inno Setup (used by Gimp if I'm not mistaken) or some
>> other installer system.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/2009 04:54 AM, Dirk Gerrits wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I just wanted to point out that it's possible with the current CVS
>>> version of Xournal to build and run it on Windows, after a few tweaks
>>> to the source code.  Of the tweaks I had to make, one is a bug in
>>> Xournal (namely the calls to zlib and a few other routines are using
>>> text-mode I/O instead of binary I/O), and two are workarounds for
>>> peculiar (read: wrong) behavior of GDK under Windows.  I've described
>>> these tweaks on my blog at
>>> http://dirkgerrits.com/2009/10/28/xournal-on-windows/, where you can
>>> also download the resulting source code and read my build
>>> instructions.  I hope this is of use to the Xournal community.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Dirk Gerrits


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