Re: How to build evince on Windows platform?

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

Hi ml zhan, cobra,

Nice to see people trying to get Evince to compile natively on Windows!

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:36 AM, cobra.yu <cobra yu hyweb com tw> wrote:

        I'm trying hard to build evince on Win32. The latest problem is no gnome-doc-utils package on Win32. And, when tring to build that package from source, another dependency comes out. It's too complicated to explain here. But, well, I'm still working on it. Maybe we could share some unpleasnat experience on building evince on Win32. Hah!

Hmmm, the gnome-doc-utils dependency is indeed something I had not foreseen. It would be nice if we could make this dependency optional as gnome-doc-utils are only used to build help files.

If you want to try to fix it, the dependency comes from the call to GNOME_DOC_INIT in configure.ac. If you remove that call and run autoconf to create a new 'configure' and remove 'help' from the SUBDIRS variable in Makefile.in, you might be able to successfully run configure without gnome-doc-utils.

If you need any help, just ask me on irc: #evince.


HIb