Re: [evince] Building libevince as a static library

[Hib Eris <hib hiberis nl>]

Hi Richard,

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Richard Shann <richard shann virgin net> wrote:
> Hi, Hib
>
> Since your helpful email I have been driven back from my attempt to link
> the pdf backend statically into the evince widget - the poppler code
> depends on too many libraries for me to get to the bottom of.
>
> Before I give up altogether I thought I should try the .dll route again.
> From a different build of evince I have a libpdfdocument.dll built and I
> tried placing it in the location that evince reported it was searching
> for it. But I got the following pair of error messages:
>
> (denemo.exe:2248): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: `D:\lib\evince\3\backends\libpdfdocument.dll': The specified 
> module could not be found.
> (denemo.exe:2248): EvinceDocument-WARNING **: Cannot load backend
> 'pdfdocument' since file 'D:\lib\evince\3\backends\lib pdfdocument.dll'
> cannot be read.
>
> The file exists at the location specified, and as I understand it there
> are no permissions on a windows file system that would prevent the file
> being read.

Strange. Where is your executable located? I think that when your
executable is in
D:\some\path\bin\denemo.exe, then pdfdocument.dll should be in
D:\some\path\lib\evince\3\backeds\libpdfdocument.dll.

> I wonder if you or anyone else knows what is going on here, and if there
> is out there some build of the evince library with pdf backend support
> that we can use/follow.

You can take a look at the Evince for Windows application,
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/evince/2.32/evince-2.32.0.145.msi

(when you run the installer, choose 'Advanced'; it will allow you to
specify the folder to install in so that you can take a look at the
files in that folder).

Regards,

Hib