Bug 691784 - jbig2dec does not build the DLL
Summary: jbig2dec does not build the DLL
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: jbig2dec
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Build Process (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P4 normal
Assignee: Chris Liddell (chrisl)
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Reported: 2010-11-21 21:56 UTC by vincent.torri
Modified: 2013-05-24 12:44 UTC (History)
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patch to build the dll (890 bytes, patch)
2010-11-21 21:56 UTC, vincent.torri 		Details | Diff
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Description vincent.torri 2010-11-21 21:56:02 UTC 
Created attachment 6933 [details]
patch to build the dll

The autotools are not set up to build a DLL. I have attached a straightforward patch that fixes that problem.
Comment 1 Henry Stiles 2011-03-02 22:22:21 UTC 
Chris I thought you were working on this kind of stuff so I am giving this one to you.  Please let me know if you want me to study it.
Comment 2 vincent.torri 2012-07-31 08:54:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Chris I thought you were working on this kind of stuff so I am giving this one
> to you.  Please let me know if you want me to study it.

I've open a new bug report (#693238), with a patch containing the one I attached here. But, 1 year and a half for such a small but important patch...
Comment 3 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-07-31 09:04:06 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Chris I thought you were working on this kind of stuff so I am giving this one
> > to you.  Please let me know if you want me to study it.
> 
> I've open a new bug report (#693238), with a patch containing the one I
> attached here. But, 1 year and a half for such a small but important patch...

We obviously have different ideas of what's "important".

Using autoconf tools to build native Windows binaries (as opposed to cygwin or msys) is something only a *tiny* minority of people do, so I don't consider it important.

A Visual Studio project, or nmake makefile I would consider important, as that would be using the standard tools on the Windows platform.
Comment 4 vincent.torri 2012-07-31 09:47:39 UTC 
ok, i stop bugging you, guys. You can close my bug reports as "won't fix" as anyway you won't apply them. Adios.
Comment 5 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2012-07-31 10:19:40 UTC 
I didn't say I wouldn't apply them.

But, a) as I said, I don't consider these high priority issues, and b) the jbig2dec repository has been in a state of flux (i.e. whether it should continue in its own repos, whether the ghostpdl/gs/jbig2dec repos should be "canonical repository", and the jbig2dec repos itself just a mirror of that, or what....).

I've been putting off doing much with jbig2dec until we settled the repository question, and got a few things tidied up. I'm getting there, but as a standalone "product" jbig2dec is of limited interest, and tiny usage, therefore, as a standalone product, gets a pretty tiny amount of my/our attention.
Comment 6 Chris Liddell (chrisl) 2013-05-24 12:44:28 UTC 
Remaining part applied in:

http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=ghostpdl.git;a=commitdiff;h=735c3bbf