[poppler] poppler as Plugin for FF?

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres 07 Juliol 2006 00:26, Krzysztof Kowalczyk va escriure:
> On 7/6/06, Vincent Torri <vtorri at univ-evry.fr> wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Krzysztof Kowalczyk wrote:
> > > On 7/6/06, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > >> A Dijous 06 Juliol 2006 17:30, Thomas Zühlke va escriure:
> > >> > Hi *,
> > >> >
> > >> > I try to write a PDF plugin for the Firefox browser for Windows xp,
> > >> > because not all PDF features are supported by the Adobe PDF plugin.
> > >> > The feature i need is the annotation of some text of the PDF file.
> > >> >
> > >> > Is it possible to compile the poppler library under windows (VS
> > >> > 2003) and show some PDF files with it?
> > >>
> > >> Yes
> > >
> > > That's not really true. You would have to spend at least a day or 2
> > > making portability fixes and writing project files for VS.
> >
> > Isn't it possible to compile poppler with msys/mingw ? (so without
> > ressource file, using autofoo stuff)
>
> The original question was about compiling with VS.
>
> As to your question, I'm sure anything is possible given enough work.
> I doubt it will compile out-of-the box. I can't even compile latest
> CVS version of poppler on generic Ubuntu because autogen.sh fails
> miserably, so chances that it'll just work under cygwin or mingw are
> slim.

That is what i call a sucky attitude, where's the bug report? It works 
perfectly here using kubuntu, if you don't make fuss about it not working is 
probably noone will fix it.

Albert

>
> But in the end: why would you want to do it? msys/mingw is good for
> cheap ports of Unix code to windows, when there is absolutely no other
> option. Even when they work, the resulting binary is usually way below
> Windows standards from the user point of view and the developer
> experience is much worse.
>
> Windows developers are comfortable with Visual Studio and all the nice
> things it has to offer, integrated debugger being the most important
> thing. For most Windows developers setting up msys\mingw and learning
> a whole new toolchain is too much effort for the benefit and it's not
> as efficient as working from within Visual Studio.
>
> -- kjk
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