[FriBidi] Compiling trunk on Windows

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Hi Yoann,

The fribidi2 trunk is not much different from the release 0.19.1 version, so I
suggest you focus on figuring out why you are getting the wrong output from
0.19.1.

Regards,

behdad

Yoann Roman wrote:
> I'm trying to get Fribidi compiled on Windows for use with Python via 
> Pyfribidi (http://pyfribidi.sourceforge.net). I was able to compile 
> the January 15th 0.19.1 archive with VS2003 & VS2008 by using Christophe 
> Gisquet's files/notes (http://tinyurl.com/cvzfac). I also got that 
> version to compile with Cygwin using configure / make.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I pass that version some Arabic text, I'm getting 
> back invalid UTF8 sequences (2-bytes for a 3-byte codepoint). I didn't 
> have that problem with the 0.10.9 release also compiled with VS2003, but 
> that version didn't do the Arabic joining.
> 
> All that to say I'm trying to see if the fribidi2 trunk code works 
> better. Problem is I can't get it to compile on Windows. I need to get 
> the .tab.i files generated, but I can't get anything under /gen.tab to 
> compile correctly in VS2003, VS2005, or VS2008. I tried the Cygwin 
> approach, but autoconf barfs at configure.ac:
> 
> configure.ac:45: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
>       If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
>       See the Autoconf documentation.
> configure.ac:78: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
> configure.ac:79: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
> configure.ac:86: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_CONDITIONAL
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
>