Re: [Freetengwar] Tengwar Telcontar development, LibreOffice

[<j_m...@sh...>]

On 2016-11-26, at 21:27, j_m...@sh... wrote:

> That page attests that I was able to successfully build
> Tengwar Telcontar a couple of years ago. My attempts at
> building it again have been frustrated. I have succeeded at
> running the compile script on the .8 tagged version, but the
> resulting fonts lack all the smartness. I have not been able
> to run the compile script on the trunk version. The programs
> I have used are from a current Lubuntu 16.10 yakkety's
> repositories: grcompiler 4.2 and FontForge 20160404. Any
> ideas?

I found out what the problem was. It appears the grcompiler
4.2 Ubuntu build does not work. The Graphite Compiler 5.0.2
Windows executable works smoothlessly through Wine if and
only if the files icudt49.dll and icuuc49.dll are present. I
will now describe the problem more in detail, hoping that it
might be helpful to other users of GrCompiler.exe on the
internet.

The files icudt49.dll and icuuc49.dll can be obtained by
installing the Graphite Compiler 4.3.1 Windows executable.
The two files reside in the same "Graphite Compiler"
directory where the GrCompiler.exe executable itself is
installed. The 5.0.2 installer provides newer version of
these two files, icudt56.dll and icuuc56.dll. However, the
5.0.2 GrCompiler.exe does not use these newer versions.
Instead, it requires the old versions, even though the 5.0.2
installer does not provide them.

While the icudt49.dll and icuuc49.dll are not installed,
running the 5.0.2 GrCompiler.exe will produce the following
error message:

err:module:import_dll Library icuuc49.dll (which is needed by L"C:\\Program Files\\Graphite Compiler\\GrCompiler.exe") not found
err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\\Program Files\\Graphite Compiler\\GrCompiler.exe" failed, status c0000135

This error message disheartened me at first. I thought there
was something missing in the underpinnings of Wine. I
searched for the two DLLs in winetricks, but did not find
anything. Only when I saw that GrCompiler.exe would not run
on Windows proper, I found out that similar DLLs are
provided with the Graphite installer, so I tried installing
previous versions and found the required files.

I am relieved it works now.

-- 
grüess
mach