[BRLTTY] compiling new driver

Dave Mielke dave at mielke.cc
Wed Mar 20 22:27:39 EDT 2013


[quoted lines by ZSIAK Gergo Pal on 2013/03/20 at 17:23 +0100]

>I am trying to compile BRLTTY 4.4 with a new driver on Win7 using
>MSYS 1.0. I copied the Skeleton driver and changed the appropriate
>fields in the Makefile.in, then included a new line
>(BRLTTY_BRAILLE_DRIVER...) in the configure.ac. After having done
>this I ran autoconf, configure, and make. However, when make tries to
>build the new driver, it stops with errors like DRIVER_COMMENT is
>undeclared. The interesting thing is that the gcc is called with a
>parameterization which is different from the parameters used when
>compiling other drivers (firsst of all, -DDRIVER_COMMENT, and similar
>parameters are missing). In addition, I suppose that the
>parameterization is the same as the one used in compilation of
>sources found in Programs.
>So far I haven't found the wrong of missing step, could anyone help me?

You need to run autogen, first, before autoconf. In fact, autogen runs autoconf 
for you, so just run autogen instead of autoconf.

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