Commit 4882d4a5bb4f90a76c5022e22ed57507045f9fed

Authored by Jay Berkenbilt
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git-svn-id: svn+q:///qpdf/trunk@770 71b93d88-0707-0410-a8cf-f5a4172ac649
... ... @@ -8,13 +8,17 @@ Artistic License which may be found in the source distribution as
8 8 "Artistic-2.0". It is provided "as is" without express or implied
9 9 warranty.
10 10  
11   -To install this software, you can run
  11 +For UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you can usually get by with just
12 12  
13 13 ./configure
14 14 make
15 15 make install
16 16  
17   -For more detailed information, see the "INSTALL" in this directory.
  17 +For more detailed general information, see the "INSTALL" file in this
  18 +directory.
  19 +
  20 +For specific information about building qpdf on Windows, see
  21 +"README.windows".
18 22  
19 23 The QPDF package provides some executables and a software library. A
20 24 user's manual can be found in the "doc" directory. The docbook
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README.windows
... ... @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ If you have MSYS and Mingw installed, you can run configure as follows:
18 18  
19 19 ./configure --disable-test-compare-images --enable-build-external-libs --with-buildrules=mingw
20 20  
  21 +To build with msvc, you must be running in a shell environment that
  22 +puts the MSVC tools in your path. Then you can run
  23 +
  24 +XXX WHAT?
  25 +
  26 +./configure --disable-test-compare-images --enable-build-external-libs --with-buildrules=msvc
  27 +
21 28 From there, run
22 29  
23 30 make
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2 2 ===
3 3  
4 4 * Remember to update documentation with Windows build instructions.
5   - Search for Windows (case insensitive to be safe).
6   -
7   - * Do something better with external-libraries.
  5 + Search for Windows (case insensitive to be safe). Update
  6 + README.windows.
8 7  
9 8 * "Delphi wrapper unit 'qpdf.pas' created by Zarko Gajic
10 9 (http://delphi.about.com). .. use at your own risk and for whatever
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external-libs/README
1   -Other than Abuild files, these files are the only changes from
2   -pristine extracted sources. For pcre, use pcre 4.5. For zlib, we
3   -used 1.2.3.3 from debian (dfsg). These files:
  1 +NOTE: These copies of external libraries are not used by default. You
  2 +must explicitly specific --enable-build-external-libraries on the
  3 +command-line in order to use them. This is not recommended unless you
  4 +have no other option. It can be especially useful for building on
  5 +Windows.
  6 +
  7 +----------------------------------------------------------------------
  8 +
  9 +The pcre and zlib directories here contain pcre 4.5 and zlib 1.2.3.3
  10 +from debian (dfsg). All files were removed that are not either
  11 +required to build or that contain some kind of copyright or
  12 +acknowledgment information. Other than as described below, everything
  13 +else was left unmodified.
  14 +
  15 +These files:
4 16  
5 17 ./pcre/pcre.h
6 18 ./pcre/config.h
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