Re: [evince] Building libevince as a static library

[Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net>]

On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 18:53 +0100, Hib Eris wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> When I build the 'official' Evince for Windows I always build it with
> shared libraries. I have no experience with building it statically.
>
> I think it is like this: libevdocument is evince's library to handle
> documents. You can dynamically add plugins for handeling different
> document formats. So for pdf documents Evince uses a libpdfdocument
> plugin. I think these plugins are always shared libraries.
> When you statically compile libevdocument, it still looks for shared
> library plugins like libpdfdocument.dll. So I think you should not add
> '--disable-shared' to your configure.
Unfortunately this then requires half-a-dozen other libraries to be
available as shared objects. It looks like the only route will be to add
support to evince to directly call the poppler routines when statically
linking.
Thank you for the response.

Richard Shann

> Regards,
>
> Hib Eris
>
>
>
>
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>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > In the GNU/Denemo project we are trying to cross-compile libevince 2.32.
> > for windows. We are using mxe for this, and have a configure step
> > looking like this
> > ./configure \
> >         --host='$(TARGET)' \
> >         --disable-shared \
> >         --prefix='$(PREFIX)/$(TARGET)' \
> >         --without-libgnome \
> >         --without-gconf \
> >         --without-keyring \
> >         --with-platform=win32 \
> >         --with-smclient-backend=win32 \
> >         --disable-help \
> >         --disable-thumbnailer \
> >         --disable-nautilus \
> >         --disable-dbus \
> >         --disable-gtk-doc \
> >         --disable-previewer \
> >         --disable-nls \
> >         --without-gtk-unix-print \
> >         --disable-comics \
> >         CONFIG_SHELL=$(SHELL)
> >
> > We get a static library for evince but also another static library
> > lib/evince/3/backends/libpdfdocument.a and the .la file.
> > However, when the evince widget tries to load a pdf document it
> > complains that libpdfdocument.dll is not found in the backends
> > directory.
> >
> > Is there something wrong with our configure step? (I should mention we
> > also need two patches to enable the compilation, appended below).
> >
> > Richard Shann
> >
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><--- 
> > evince-2.32.0/shell/main.c      2010-07-27 11:47:54.000000000 -0400
> > +++ evince-2.32.0.new/shell/main.c      2013-02-02 23:57:54.000000000
> > -0500
> > @@ -43,9 +43,6 @@
> >  #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
> >  #include <io.h>
> >  #include <conio.h>
> > -#if !(_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0500)
> > -#error "_WIN32_WINNT must be defined >= 0x0500"
> > -#endif
> >  #include <windows.h>
> >  #endif
> >
> > @@ -249,7 +246,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
> >           AttachConsole_t p_AttachConsole =
> >             (AttachConsole_t) GetProcAddress (GetModuleHandle
> > ("kernel32.dll"), "AttachConsole");
> >
> > -         if (p_AttachConsole != NULL && p_AttachConsole
> > (ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS))
> > +         if (p_AttachConsole != NULL && p_AttachConsole (-1))
> >        {
> >               freopen ("CONOUT$", "w", stdout);
> >               dup2 (fileno (stdout), 1);
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><--- 
> > evince-2.32.0/backend/pdf/ev-poppler.cc 2010-09-27 12:54:34.000000000 -0400
> > +++ evince-2.32.0.new/backend/pdf/ev-poppler.cc 2013-02-02
> > 23:40:15.000000000 -0500
> > @@ -1934,9 +1934,7 @@ pdf_selection_get_selected_text (EvSelec
> >         r.x2 = points->x2;
> >         r.y2 = height - points->y1;
> >
> > -       retval = poppler_page_get_text (poppler_page,
> > -                                       (PopplerSelectionStyle)style,
> > -                                       &r);
> > +       retval = poppler_page_get_text (poppler_page);
> >  #endif /* HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_GET_SELECTED_TEXT */
> >
> >         return retval;
> > @@ -2054,9 +2052,7 @@ pdf_document_text_get_text (EvDocumentTe
> >         r.y1 = 0;
> >         poppler_page_get_size (poppler_page, &(r.x2), &(r.y2));
> >
> > -       return poppler_page_get_text (poppler_page,
> > -                                     POPPLER_SELECTION_WORD,
> > -                                     &r);
> > +       return poppler_page_get_text (poppler_page);
> >  }
> >  #endif /* HAVE_POPPLER_PAGE_GET_SELECTED_TEXT */
> >
> > 8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><8><
> >
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