Hi List,
I'm just starting up with the project and want to run under XP. I have been advised that VC++, which I would have preferred, is too difficult to get going.
So I started with the 'Compiling Inkscape for the Win32 Platform' document and cannot unpack a downloaded copy of gtk26 with 7-zip. I get the error 'this is not a supported archive' with both gtk copies on the website using either of the 2 available versions of 7-zip.
Downloading with IE produces different size files from using Firefox so I'm guessing it's a download problem.
Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format? TIA Douglas Neale
Douglas Neale wrote:
Hi List,
I'm just starting up with the project and want to run under XP. I have been advised that VC++, which I would have preferred, is too difficult to get going.
So I started with the 'Compiling Inkscape for the Win32 Platform' document and cannot unpack a downloaded copy of gtk26 with 7-zip. I get the error 'this is not a supported archive' with both gtk copies on the website using either of the 2 available versions of 7-zip.
Downloading with IE produces different size files from using Firefox so I'm guessing it's a download problem.
Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format? TIA Douglas Neale
Heh. I have had that problem, too, and I am the culprit who -uploaded- it! ;-) I suggest using wget. It will fiercely download the requested thing until it is completely and correctly assembled on your machine. Here:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
The file -is- valid. It is just difficult to download.
Bob (Ishmal)
Bob Jamison schrieb:
Douglas Neale wrote:
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Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format? TIA Douglas Neale
Heh. I have had that problem, too, and I am the culprit who -uploaded- it! ;-) I suggest using wget. It will fiercely download the requested thing until it is completely and correctly assembled on your machine. Here:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
The file -is- valid. It is just difficult to download.
here the same. Only got luck with wget iexplorer and firefox cutting the archive so that it becomes corrupt.
Adib.
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 13:47 -0500, Bob Jamison wrote:
Heh. I have had that problem, too, and I am the culprit who -uploaded- it! ;-) I suggest using wget. It will fiercely download the requested thing until it is completely and correctly assembled on your machine. Here:
http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
The file -is- valid. It is just difficult to download.
Can we put this in the SF file manager? Perhaps a different project of Inkscape win32 build stuff, or something like that. People would then have local mirrors for it also.
--Ted
So I started with the 'Compiling Inkscape for the Win32 Platform' document and cannot unpack a downloaded copy of gtk26 with 7-zip. I
get
the error 'this is not a supported archive' with both gtk copies on
the
website using either of the 2 available versions of 7-zip.
See below...
Downloading with IE produces different size files from using Firefox
so
I'm guessing it's a download problem.
You are correct that it is a download problem. I was having the same issue recently. The trick is to use wget or some download manager such as freshdownload or something to ensure that you get a complete archive.
Can anyone point me to an alternative source of the gtk26 library, perhaps in a normal zip format?
The format is not the issue, it is definitely just that the file was incomplete. The size/bandwidth savings afforded by 7zip are too good to pass up. ;)
-Josh
In message <000801c596ac$c2a91790$3200000a@...534...>, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> writes
You are correct that it is a download problem. I was having the same issue recently. The trick is to use wget or some download manager such as freshdownload or something to ensure that you get a complete archive.
Freshdownload is much better than wget and I now have a copy of gtk26 which unpacks.
Completing the rest of the downloads but using the inkscape-0.42.tar.gz as a source, I had to find a mingenv.bat and a config.h.mingw as they were not in the source. I copied both from the CVS file repository, editing the mingenv.bat as required (I checked with 'SET' and 'PATH' that it was OK). I then copied config.h.mingw to config.h as mentioned by Adib Taraben in the mail archives as well as running mkfiles.pl and mkdep.pl (there isn't a makedef.pl in the distro)
However, on getting to the 'make -f Makefile.mingw' step, it stops immediately with the following error message:
'No rule to make target config.h.mingw, needed by config.h'
I have checked that the rule lines start with a TAB not spaces as advised in Mathew and Stones book, but after that I'm lost.
Sorry to be a nuisance, but can anyone help. TIA Douglas Neale
Douglas Neale schrieb: ...
Completing the rest of the downloads but using the inkscape-0.42.tar.gz as a source, I had to find a mingenv.bat and a config.h.mingw as they were not in the source. I copied both from the CVS file repository, editing the mingenv.bat as required (I checked with 'SET' and 'PATH' that it was OK). I then copied config.h.mingw to config.h as mentioned by Adib Taraben in the mail archives as well as running mkfiles.pl and mkdep.pl (there isn't a makedef.pl in the distro)
... I have to try the tarball myself ... and tell Ted what exactly is still wrong ;-) The bug ticket is still there.
Ted, maybe you tell me which make target you use to create the tarball :-?
Meanwhile, Doug pls download a daily CVS source snapshot from http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/ or http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/
Thanks,
Adib.
In message <42EFCAB0.5080709@...50...>, Adib Taraben <taraben.a@...50...> writes
Meanwhile, Doug pls download a daily CVS source snapshot from http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/ or http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/
That did the trick, it now compiles without any errors. Regards, Douglas Neale
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:34 +0200, Adib Taraben wrote:
Ted, maybe you tell me which make target you use to create the tarball :-?
Meanwhile, Doug pls download a daily CVS source snapshot from http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/ or http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/
make dist
That is configured by autotools. So, looking at that target isn't probably as useful as figuring out what files need to be included -- and then adding them into EXTRA_DIST.
I'll also say that I'm not sure how the Windows packages are built, but they really need to be built from a tarball, not CVS. If it is built from CVS it needs to be taken from the tag for the version, that way all the files are the right version number.
--Ted
Ted Gould schrieb:
On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 21:34 +0200, Adib Taraben wrote:
Ted, maybe you tell me which make target you use to create the tarball :-?
Meanwhile, Doug pls download a daily CVS source snapshot from http://cortijodelrio.net/~inkscape/ or http://www.inkscape.org/cvs-snap/
make dist
That is configured by autotools. So, looking at that target isn't probably as useful as figuring out what files need to be included -- and then adding them into EXTRA_DIST.
I'll also say that I'm not sure how the Windows packages are built, but they really need to be built from a tarball, not CVS. If it is built from CVS it needs to be taken from the tag for the version, that way all the files are the right version number.
--Ted
Ted, I compiled the tarball and noted the files that I have to copy (from the CVS): Strange the tarball (I used tar.gz) misses some files that where in the CVS Here the notes. HTH, Adib. ---
missing files for all systems not in source tarball --------------------------------------------------- src/sp-animation.cpp src/sp-animation.h src/extension/implementation/plugin.cpp src/extension/implementation/plugin.h src/extension/implementation/plugin-link.h
missing files for mingw-win32 ----------------------------- mingwenv.bat config.h.mingw inkscape32-16.ico used by src/inkscape.rc po/Makefile.mingw src/Makefile.mingw src/inkscape_version.h.mingw src/inkscape.rc src/helper/sp-marshal.h.mingw src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp.mingw
missing package files all subsystems Win32 + Mac Q: can the dir package goes to the line SUBDIRS = src doc share po in the Makefile.am ??? How do we handle added files for the installers ? --------------------------------------- packaging iconfiles missing (who needs that?) packaging/macos/ all files missing packaging/win32/ all files missing
missing files at all (are in CVS) not needed by a Win32 ------------------------------------------------------- HACKING_de HACKING_fr HACKING_it README_ca README_de README_fr README_it
obsolete entry in Makefile.am ----------------------------- incscape.nsi please remove this from Makefile.am it is moved to packages/win32
dynamic created files in CVS (actually I don't know why they are in the CVS) they are created by perl scripts in src/mkdep.pl src/mkfiles.pl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- src/make.dep src/make.exclude src/make.files src/make.ofiles
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