[BRLTTY] README.Windows needs to be updated

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Tue Aug 16 22:15:08 EDT 2011


Hello,

Lars Bjørndal, le Sun 14 Aug 2011 16:02:29 +0200, a écrit :
> I think the README file should be updated before the next release. I
> tried to follow the instructions to build and run BRLTTY with USB
> support, however, I was unsuccessful.

It's not an easy thing indeed.

> Under listed packages to build BRLTTY, yacc is mentioned.

"or bison"

> Couldn't find that package with 'apt-cyg find'.

bison should be available.

> I couldn't find the tcl and linuxdoc-tools packages neither.

It should actually have been tcltk. linuxdoc-tools apparently isn't
available on cygwin indeed.

> On a Windows 64 bit system, that leads to an unworking USB system after
> restart, due to the old version of that cygwin package.

I have sent an upload request for the newer version, should be available
soon.

> Futher more, the details about downloading and installing the
> libusb-win32 package, should be updated. The file names seems to have
> changed.

It should be fixed in the svn now.

Samuel


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