[poppler] Setup poppler

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dimecres, 22 d'abril de 2009, toto titi va escriure:
> Hi

Hi

>
> I'm in work placement and I have to develop a standalone marking tool.
> After the analysis part, I have choosen to use Qt and poppler library but I
> have some problems to set up poppler. So generally to set up a library with
> Qt there is just the .pro file to change indicating the new include and lib
> files.
>
> I tried to do that but it doesn't really worked (I have just linked the
> poppler/qt4/include folder) and I'm pretty sure I have forgoten
> something.
>
> After that I founded a file name INSTALL in which there are some
> explication who to process to install poppler :
>
> "
> The simplest way to compile this package is:
>
>   1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
>      `./configure' to configure the package for your system.  If you're
>
>      using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
>      `sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
>      `configure' itself.
>
>      Running `configure' takes awhile.  While running, it prints some
>
>      messages telling which features it is checking for.
>
>   2. Type `make' to compile the package.
>
>   3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
>      the package.
>
>   4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
>
>      documentation.
>
>   5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
>      source code directory by typing `make clean'.  To also remove the
>      files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
>
>      a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'.  There is
>      also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
>      for the package's developers.  If you use it, you may have to get
>
>      all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
>      with the distribution.
> "
>
> None of those command worked.

That commands are perfectly valid.

> To conclude I'm totally lost and confuse about the setup of poppler and I
> did not find any usefull informations on the web.
>
> I'd be gratefull if someone have some tips or tutorial for me.
> By the way, I'm working on windows vista.

This is your problem, none of the developers of poppler use windows. We know 
poppler builds on windows, people is known to have success building it using 
mingw, cygwin and also using cmake as build system, but that's all i can say.


>
> I hope my english is understandable.

Totally understandable.

Albert

>
> Thanks
>
> Romain
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