On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Krzysztof Kosiñski <tweenk.pl@...400...> wrote:

2013/9/23 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>:

> I don't understand. Can you elaborate why you think the datadir should be
> set to "."?

On Windows, we do not rely on the MSYS approach of installing the
application in a Unix-like directory structure. Instead, we put the
"share" directory with all the datafiles in the same directory as the
executable, and resolve the paths to files relative to the path to the
executable. Setting INKSCAPE_DATADIR to "." allows the code in
src/prefix.cpp to work correctly.

I see. OK, I will set the datadir to "." and see what happens.

> I purposely defined the datadir since the make install creates a folder
> called /opt/inkspace/share/inkspace/ and put all the files there. I figured
> that if I explicitly specified the datadir then perhaps it would create the
> share folder correctly.

The problem is not that the datadir is not created, but that Inkscape
will never search it for files. The code for looking the up datafiles
is different between Unix and Windows. The Windows version of this
code looks for the share directory in the directory which contains the
executable.

Is it looking for all the icons and the keys in the same folder as the executable?

I downloaded the the Windows 32-bit build of Inkscape and I see that the share folder is what I would have expected from make install. In this build, I see a share folder containing the keys, icons and the other folders. So, I am confused again. :( I don't see a primary bin folder which is OK.

Allowing a functional copy of Inkscape to be built with Autotools on
Windows will require some modifications to Inkscape source.

This would be very helpful! :)

Regards, Krzysztof

Thanks for all your help.

I will yet create a 64-bit build though I had to modify some of the codes to get so far! :)

Partha