[texworks] Building TeXworks on Windows using MinGW

[Alain Delmotte]

Hi!

I did install everything.

Compiling hunspell went, I think, well; but there were warnings!

For texworks, after modifying texworks.pro, qmake created 3 files: 
Makefile, Makefile.Release and Makefile.debug
mingw32-make stopped with an error:
C:\texworks\texworks>mingw32-make
mingw32-make -f Makefile.Release
mingw32-make[1]: Entering directory `/c/texworks/texworks'
Makefile.Release:115: *** missing separator.  Stop.
mingw32-make[1]: Leaving directory `/c/texworks/texworks'
mingw32-make: *** [release] Error 2

I attach the three makefiles

The same with the special make from make-3.81-MSYS-1.0.11-2.tar.bz2 and 
the make from msys

Alain

Stefan Löffler a écrit :
> Hi again,
>
> On 2009-06-10 15:17, Stefan Löffler wrote:
>   
>> T T schrieb:
>>   
>>     
>>> I wonder how difficult it would be to compile TW with MSYS/MinGW. That
>>> would get rid of this dependency.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> I tried that once but didn't succeed. I'm no mingw pro at all, though.
>> IIRC my problem was getting all the dependencies to compile, but I may
>> be mistaken.
>> If you succeed I'd greatly appreciate a guide/walk-through. If you can
>> compile it on Windows using mingw, you may also be able to cross-compile
>> it from other platforms (e.g. Linux). That could make automatic
>> compilation/redistribution of the binaries much simpler.
>>
>> Good luck :)
>>   
>>     
>
> I changed my mind (mainly because VC++ 2005 seems to be no longer
> available) since I booted into my Windows partition again today and
> managed to build TW using MinGW. I'll give a short overview over what I
> did in the hopes that some people on this list will try it and give me
> feedback. In that case I'll write a more comprehensive guide and send it
> to Jonathan for putting it on the wiki.
>
> In the following guide, #wiki# refers to the existing "Building On
> Windows" page on the wiki (see:
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/wiki/BuildingOnWindows).
>
> Required Software:
> Same as on #wiki# except for Visual C++ and Platform SDK.
> Additional dependency: MinGW (with support for c++ and make) + MSYS
>
> Directory structure:
> Same as on #wiki#
>
> Obtaining the necessary libraries from KDE on Windows:
> Same as on #wiki#, except for:
> Compiler Mode: *mingw*
> required packages:
>  - freetype-mingw
>  - jpeg
>  - poppler-data
>  - poppler-mingw
>  - qt-mingw
>  - zlib
>
> Downloading and building Hunspell:
> Downloading is the same as on #wiki#
> For building, run MSYS and type:
>     cd /c/texworks/hunspell-1.2.8
>     ./configure
>     cd src/hunspell
>     make
>
> Obtaining and building TeXworks:
> Obtaining is the same as on #wiki#
> For building, you have to modify TeXworks.pro by replacing the lines reading
>     INCLUDEPATH += z:/cross-tools/usr/local/include
>     INCLUDEPATH += z:/cross-tools/usr/local/include/poppler
>     INCLUDEPATH += z:/cross-tools/usr/local/include/poppler/qt4
>     INCLUDEPATH += z:/cross-tools/usr/local/include/hunspell
>     LIBS += -Lz:/cross-tools/usr/local/lib
> by
>     INCLUDEPATH += C:/KDE/include/poppler/qt4
>     INCLUDEPATH += C:/texworks-mingw/hunspell-1.2.8/src/hunspell
>     LIBS += -LC:/texworks-mingw/hunspell-1.2.8/src/hunspell/.libs
>
> Then run
>     qmake
>     mingw32-make
> on the command line in the texworks-read-only directory
>
>
> Running TeXworks for the first time:
> In order to run TeXworks, you may need to copy the following dlls from
> C:\KDE\bin to C:\texworks\texworks-read-only\release:
>  - jpeg62.dll
>  - libfontconfig.dll
>  - libfreetype.dll
>  - libpoppler-qt4.dll
>  - libpoppler.dll
>  - mingwm10.dll
>  - QtCore4.dll
>  - QtGui4.dll
>  - QtXml4.dll
>  - zlib1.dll
>
> I hope this helps and is comprehensible. I'm looking forward to your
> feedback.
>
> -Stefan
>
>   
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