Sure. as I stated above, my build environment is mingw-gcc and I use msys as the backend if you will. All my libraries are built within this environment.

BTW, make install also does not put share correctly even if you manually specify the datadir.

I am surprised by these strange paths as well. I don't have this issue with Gimp for example which I also build.

I have never heard of btool till today.

BTW, is there already a 64-bit Windows build for Inkscape?

Thanks for your help! Partha

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>wrote:

2013/9/21 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>:

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I am convinced the problem is with the path that Inkscape is seeing.

When I

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divert all stdout to file, I see the following: ________________________being log_______________________ ** (inkscape.exe:4148): CRITICAL **: Inkscape::XML::Document* sp_repr_read_file(const gchar*, const gchar*): assertion 'Inkscape::IO::f ile_test( filename, G_FILE_TEST_EXISTS )' failed

** (inkscape.exe:4148): WARNING **: Unable to read keys file

I:\oss-dev\msys\opt\inkspace\bin/opt/inkspace/share\share\keys\default.xm

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l

** (inkscape.exe:4148): WARNING **: Null pixbuf for 00000000037DFA60 [I:\oss-dev\msys\opt\inkspace\bin/opt/inkspace/share\share\icons\ remove-color.png]

Can you describe in some more detail how you are building Inkscape?

The standard way to do it is to use btool. These strange paths, with mixtures of Unix and Windows components, might be an artifact of using Autotools within MSYS.

Regards, Krzysztof

Most definitely. I use gcc 4.8.1 targeted for x86_64. I build all dependencies (that I need for Gimp). I will put up all my notes on my website www.partha.com since it would be too long for the mailing list.

Right now, my build looks like this: http://www.partha.com/temp/inkscape-issues.png

I am assuming there is no 64-bit windows builds?

Anyway, any clues on the reason for the mangled paths and icon issues?

Thanks again, Partha

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>wrote:

2013/9/21 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>:

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Sure. as I stated above, my build environment is mingw-gcc and I use

msys as

...

the backend if you will. All my libraries are built within this

environment.

...

BTW, make install also does not put share correctly even if you manually specify the datadir.

I am surprised by these strange paths as well. I don't have this issue

with

...

Gimp for example which I also build.

I have never heard of btool till today.

See here. The README files from the source tree are very outdated. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows

If you managed to build all dependencies in MSYS, please share some notes about the process, and what versions of libraries you used.

Regards, Krzysztof

I know, I always seem to spell Inkscape as inkspace. :(

I install all my OSS software in /opt.

Here is the config.h: -----------------------------------begin config.h--------------------------------------------- /* config.h. Generated from config.h.in by configure. */ /* config.h.in. Generated from configure.ac by autoheader. */

/* Define if building universal (internal helper macro) */ /* #undef AC_APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD */

/* Use binreloc thread support? */ #define BR_PTHREADS 0

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/* always defined to indicate that i18n is enabled */ #define ENABLE_NLS 1

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/* SVG Fonts should be used */ #define ENABLE_SVG_FONTS 1

/* Translation domain used */ #define GETTEXT_PACKAGE "inkscape"

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/* Define to 1 if you have the `bind_textdomain_codeset' function. */ #define HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET 1

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/* Define to 1 if you have the <gc.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_GC_H 1

/* Define if the GNU gettext() function is already present or preinstalled. */ #define HAVE_GETTEXT 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `gettimeofday' function. */ #define HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY 1

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/* Use libpoppler for direct PDF import */ #define HAVE_POPPLER 1

/* Use libpoppler-cairo for rendering PDF preview */ #define HAVE_POPPLER_CAIRO 1

/* Use libpoppler-glib and Cairo-SVG for PDF import */ #define HAVE_POPPLER_GLIB 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `pow' function. */ #define HAVE_POW 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `sqrt' function. */ #define HAVE_SQRT 1

/* Define to 1 if `stat' has the bug that it succeeds when given the zero-length file name argument. */ /* #undef HAVE_STAT_EMPTY_STRING_BUG */

/* Define to 1 if you have the <stddef.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_STDDEF_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <stdint.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_STDINT_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <stdlib.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_STDLIB_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strftime' function. */ #define HAVE_STRFTIME 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <strings.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_STRINGS_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <string.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_STRING_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strncasecmp' function. */ #define HAVE_STRNCASECMP 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strpbrk' function. */ #define HAVE_STRPBRK 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strrchr' function. */ #define HAVE_STRRCHR 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strspn' function. */ #define HAVE_STRSPN 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the `strstr' function. */ #define HAVE_STRSTR 1

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/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/filio.h> header file. */ /* #undef HAVE_SYS_FILIO_H */

/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/stat.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_SYS_STAT_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/time.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_SYS_TIME_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <sys/types.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H 1

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/* Define to 1 if you have the <unistd.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_UNISTD_H 1

/* Define to 1 if you have the <zlib.h> header file. */ #define HAVE_ZLIB_H 1

/* Base data directory */ #define INKSCAPE_DATADIR "/opt/inkspace/share"

/* Define to 1 if `lstat' dereferences a symlink specified with a trailing slash. */ /* #undef LSTAT_FOLLOWS_SLASHED_SYMLINK */

/* Define to 1 if your C compiler doesn't accept -c and -o together. */ /* #undef NO_MINUS_C_MINUS_O */

/* Name of package */ #define PACKAGE "inkscape"

/* Define to the address where bug reports for this package should be sent. */ #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT ""

/* Locatization directory */ #define PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR "/opt/inkspace/share/locale"

/* Define to the full name of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_NAME "inkscape"

/* Define to the full name and version of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_STRING "inkscape 0.48.4"

/* Define to the one symbol short name of this package. */ #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "inkscape"

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/* Use color space API from Poppler >= 0.12.2 */ /* #undef POPPLER_NEW_COLOR_SPACE_API */

/* Use new error API from Poppler >= 0.20.0 */ #define POPPLER_NEW_ERRORAPI 1

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/* Version number of package */ #define VERSION "0.48.4"

/* Use gnome vfs file load functionality */ /* #undef WITH_GNOME_VFS */

/* Build with Gtkmm 2.22.x */ #define WITH_GTKMM_2_22 1

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On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>wrote:

2013/9/22 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>:

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Most definitely. I use gcc 4.8.1 targeted for x86_64. I build all dependencies (that I need for Gimp). I will put up all my notes on my website www.partha.com since it would be too long for the mailing list.

Right now, my build looks like this: http://www.partha.com/temp/inkscape-issues.png

I am assuming there is no 64-bit windows builds?

No, there are no official 64-bit builds at the moment.

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Anyway, any clues on the reason for the mangled paths and icon issues?

There is a reference to /opt/inkscape in configure.ac, but your log mentions "/opt/inkspace", reproducing the typo you've made in the name of the build directory. At the moment I'm not sure where this comes from. It could help if you could send a copy of the config.h generated by Autotools.

Regards, Krzysztof

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

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.

I will definitely check build.xml to see what it should contain.

Thanks, Partha

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 7:36 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...400...>wrote:

2013/9/22 Partha Bagchi <partha1b@...400...>:

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/* Base data directory */ #define INKSCAPE_DATADIR "/opt/inkspace/share"

This is the culprit. In the Windows version, this should be defined to "."

Autotools also doesn't contain the code required to create the distribution directory. You can inspect the build.xml file to see what it should contain, specifically the "distbase" target.

Regards, Krzysztof

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...972.....>wrote:

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

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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.

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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

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that if I explicitly specified the datadir then perhaps it would create

the

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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

Krzyztof,

Looks like I have finally managed to a working version of 64-bit Inkscape for Windows. This version is based on the stable release 0.48.4. I had one of my Gimp users do a battery of tests and he proclaimed it to be quite stable. So, I am quite excited about it. :)

So, if anyone is interested in testing, I will be happy to make an installer available for testing.

I also intend to provide notes on how I did it. Needless to say, I had to modify some of the source to get it to compile.

Thanks, Partha

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:47 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński <tweenk.pl@...972.....>wrote:

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

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

If you have the Inkscape executable in C:\Program Files\Inkscape\inkscape.exe and INKSCAPE_DATADIR is set to ".", it will look for the icons file in C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\icons\icons.svg

Regards, Krzysztof

Hi Martin,

I am not sure the page Krzysztof pointed to helps me with compiling a 64-bit Windows version of Inkscape. In any case, I was not aware of that page and used the inline documentation and configure --help. So, I prefer inline documentation as well.

In any case, I think I have an operational Inkscape 64-bit Windows version sans the icons and of course the weird path problems.

Thanks, Partha

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:

On Sun, 2013-09-22 at 00:01 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:

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See here. The README files from the source tree are very outdated. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows

We have a choice, we can remove that page from the wiki and use in-code readme for compiling information (which I prefer) or we can add more developer pages to the new website. Which I don't mind, the more info the better.

http://staging.inkscape.org

Martin,