Re: compiling lout with MS Visual C++

[Antony Blakey]

Vassili Dzuba wrote:
> 
> I just downloaded LOUT 3.0.8 and compiled it using Microsoft Visual C++ 4.2.
> 
> The compilation works, and the initialization run (lout -x) works (with
> the caveat about the norweg.lh file) but when I try to run it
> on the provided documentation (design, expert, etc.), it fails with the 
> message:
> 
>         database index file seems to be out of date
> 
> (from file z41.c, line 58).
> 
> Did somebody successfully compiled and run lout with MS VC ?
> Do somebody has an idea about what I should look to ?
> 


Ah yes,
       make sure that when you extract the files that you set winzip (or
whatever) to do a binary extraction only. This fixes that problem.

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