Re: [Demexp-dev] Succesful compilation of DemExp under Win32/Cygwin

[GISQUET Christophe]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, David MENTRE wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestion about the /tmp issue. Until know, I was
> assuming a Unix system. You just raised the bar. :) I'll try to
> investigate about the issue and fix it.

I confirmed this is the cause of the error. Plus it should allow the 
application to run (the error is really fatal). So, unless I mixed things, 
it seems that changing "/tmp/" to, for instance, "C:\\" fixes the 
executiong. For some reason, it must look for a Cygwin install folder, as 
renaming mine to C:\Dev\_cygwin would cause the same problem as for all 
win32 users that tried the installer so far.

> Regarding your other comments about xml & co, well, I've not looked much 
> at your notes. :-]

I'll still keep on reporting ;)
(all the more since my replies really aim at informing interested users on 
this list)
I just managed to build libxml2 and use it under Cygwin. This introduces 
the following changes for dlls:
cygz -> libz1
cygicon2 -> iconv
cygxml2-2 -> libxml2 (with some hackery I've added to the notes)

The first 2 must /not/ be stripped... I've stripped so far the DemExp exe 
(from 3.1MB to 1.7MB) but maybe this would make crash reports more cryptic 
for you, so I haven't stripped it for the new installer (same place as in 
first mail). However, there must be a slight compiling difference as the 
libxml2.dll packaged in the GTK+ 2.0 installer is incompatible (app won't 
run with it)

If the full installer works for some people, could they also try 
installing:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/gtk%2B-2.4.14-setup.zip?download
and the standalone DemExp installer at:
http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/DemExp-standalone-0.3.exe
and see if it runs (it doesn't here, but my system is at fault for not 
finding dlls that are in the path).

Best regards,
--
Christophe GISQUET
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