Re: mingw32 build (was Re: slrn 0.9.9 release plans)

Marcin Wiśniewski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Traceback: sprintf
> .\macros\xface.sl:14:update_xface:Type Mismatch
>   Local variables for update_xface:
> 	String_Type xface = ""
> 	Null_Type home = NULL
> 	Undefined_Type fxface = Undefined_Type
> 	Undefined_Type h = Undefined_Type
> .\macros\xface.sl:23:show_xface:Type Mismatch
> .\macros\hooks.sl:33:SYS_read_article_hook:Type Mismatch
>
> where xface.sl:
> 14: variable fxface = sprintf("%s/xface.$$$", home);

The problem is that `home' is NULL instead of a string.  How are you
setting `home'?  Via getenv("HOME")?  If so, does "HOME" exist in the
environment?

>>> 2) Charsets - same errors as in previous version.
>>
>> Not surprising considering that the native windows version does not
>> have support for character set translation enabled.  For this, a
>> windows equivalent of iconv will be required.  As I stated before, I
>> know next to nothing about windows, and even less about character set
>> handling under windows.
>
> Iconv and gettext binaries are available on mingw page and I hope they will
> be used when you got time (and inclination) to work on compiling slrn by msys.

I will look into it.  In the mean time, perhaps you can explore this.
You will have to modify the makefile to link to the iconv library, and
put

   #define HAVE_ICONV  1

in the src/slrnconf.h file then recompile.

>> You may need to install UTF-8 specific fonts.
>
> It will be difficult - in cmd.exe you can choose between only one raster
> font and one unicode - Lucida Console. Anyway, I tested it with windows
> binary of 'less' and it works, showing cyrillic characters.
>
>> In addition, you may
>> have to set the LANG environment variable to something like
>> "pl_PL.UTF-8" to force slang into UTF-8 mode.
>
> Sorry, no change.

From within slrn, press Ctrl-X ESC.  You should see a "S-Lang>"
prompt.  At the prompt, enter:

   vmessage("%d", _slang_utf8_ok);

If 1 is displayed, then slang is in UTF-8 mode.

Thanks,
--John

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