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-rw-r--r-- | README | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | README.windows | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | TODO | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | external-libs/README | 18 |
4 files changed, 30 insertions, 8 deletions
@@ -8,13 +8,17 @@ Artistic License which may be found in the source distribution as "Artistic-2.0". It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. -To install this software, you can run +For UNIX and UNIX-like systems, you can usually get by with just ./configure make make install -For more detailed information, see the "INSTALL" in this directory. +For more detailed general information, see the "INSTALL" file in this +directory. + +For specific information about building qpdf on Windows, see +"README.windows". The QPDF package provides some executables and a software library. A user's manual can be found in the "doc" directory. The docbook diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows index b4ba8fed..4cf547b8 100644 --- a/README.windows +++ b/README.windows @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ If you have MSYS and Mingw installed, you can run configure as follows: ./configure --disable-test-compare-images --enable-build-external-libs --with-buildrules=mingw +To build with msvc, you must be running in a shell environment that +puts the MSVC tools in your path. Then you can run + +XXX WHAT? + +./configure --disable-test-compare-images --enable-build-external-libs --with-buildrules=msvc + From there, run make @@ -2,9 +2,8 @@ === * Remember to update documentation with Windows build instructions. - Search for Windows (case insensitive to be safe). - - * Do something better with external-libraries. + Search for Windows (case insensitive to be safe). Update + README.windows. * "Delphi wrapper unit 'qpdf.pas' created by Zarko Gajic (http://delphi.about.com). .. use at your own risk and for whatever diff --git a/external-libs/README b/external-libs/README index 0ecf5930..1b87abfd 100644 --- a/external-libs/README +++ b/external-libs/README @@ -1,6 +1,18 @@ -Other than Abuild files, these files are the only changes from -pristine extracted sources. For pcre, use pcre 4.5. For zlib, we -used 1.2.3.3 from debian (dfsg). These files: +NOTE: These copies of external libraries are not used by default. You +must explicitly specific --enable-build-external-libraries on the +command-line in order to use them. This is not recommended unless you +have no other option. It can be especially useful for building on +Windows. + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- + +The pcre and zlib directories here contain pcre 4.5 and zlib 1.2.3.3 +from debian (dfsg). All files were removed that are not either +required to build or that contain some kind of copyright or +acknowledgment information. Other than as described below, everything +else was left unmodified. + +These files: ./pcre/pcre.h ./pcre/config.h |