[BRLTTY] Compilation problems on Windows

[Siddharth]

Hi Siju,

Thanks for your detailed notes. I tried out the method you recommended with
brltty-4.5 but faced the same error with tables while 'make install' :
/bin/install: cannot open `../Tables/sl.ttb' for reading: No such file or
directory
I now suspect their might be some problem with my environment (MingGW) that
it is not able to find files that are very much present in the directory it
is looking in. Could you please tell me which version of MinGW did you use?

Regards,
Siddharth




On 17 May 2014 02:51, Siju Samuel <sijusamueltech at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >>I have a Seika 40 display and I'm trying to get NVDA to use brlttythat
> I've compiled from source. I am unable to do so because I suspect the
> >>service isn't running and it cannot connect to BrlAPI. Also, I don't know
> where to look for the error returned by brltty when NVDA tries to >>connect
> to BrlAPI."
>
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> I would like to add following information in case if it is helpful in
> anyway.
>
> A few months back I was trying to run a  chrome based browser application
> to use brltty in Windows machine. Basically I compilied brltty using MingW
> from source and ran brltty.exe. And programmatically I could invoke
> BrlApis from chrome based application  to read and write to refreshable
> braille device (Freedom focus).
> Today I downloaded  latest NVDA and installed.   Focus 14 is connected and
> made sure it is using the Brltty drivers. (using device manager).
>
> First Trial : Started NVDA which was not writing to the device.
> *Second Trial : Strated brltty.exe and Then started NVDA, it is writing to
> the device etc.  *I assume here some how NVDA is using brltty's APIs . As
> I see the logs in brltty's log.
>
> Now coming to compiling brltty, I used an old version (4.5) and today I
> was re-using it.
>
> Just  did config and  make and make install .  Used only bare minimum
> things  to avoid all other errors coming from compilation .[all using
> brltty 4.5 ]
>  ./configure --with-braille-driver=fs,-all  --with-screen-driver=-all
> --with-speech-driver=-all
>
>
> Also write a sample program to invoke brlapi and check it is writing to
> device or not.  Basically to make  sure brltty can communicate using th usb
> device.
>
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>
> I am pasting some of my old notes here :
>
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> 1.Check out the latest code in Linux machine.
>    ./autogen  ( Perform in Linux)
>    then copy code to Windows/Mingw
>
>
> I have the libusb-win32 file downloaded to
> /C/brlttywindows/libsub/libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0/.
>
> and used
>
> ln -s
> "/C/brlttywindows/libsub/libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0/include/lusb0_usb.h"
> /mingw/include/usb.h
> ln -s "/C/brlttywindows/libsub/libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0/lib/gcc/libusb.a"
> /mingw/lib/
> ln -s
> "/C/brlttywindows/libsub/libusb-win32-bin-1.2.6.0/bin/x86/libusb0_x86.dll"
> /mingw/bin/libusb0.dll
>
>
>
> 2. Configure and Make  looks everything successful ( after setting up the
> USB related symbolic links)
>  ./configure --with-braille-driver=fs,-all  --with-screen-driver=-all
> --with-speech-driver=-all
>
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> 3. Then perform the USB-driver related setup in README  and libsub-win32
> read me
> Copied libsub-win32 related .sys and .lib file as described in the
> document.
>
>
> 4. Connected the device and Updated the device Driver to use from
> "brltty.inf" file.
>   Note that I copied brltty.inf file from the brltty-4.5.tar
>   Now it shows LibUSB-Win32 Device :   LibUsb-win32 : Freeedom Scientific
> [focus Braille].   And teh devic eprovider is Brltty.
>
>
> 5. Ran Brltty wih
>
> .\bin\brltty -b fs -xno -p none -A auth=none  -l debug  -n -e
> --no-release-device > debug.log 2>&1
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> regards,siju
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> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Samuel Thibault <
> samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Siddharth, le Thu 15 May 2014 17:43:05 +0530, a écrit :
>> > no files matched glob pattern "brlapi_tcl.dll"
>> >     while executing
>> > "glob -directory $dir -tails -types {r f} --  {*}$patternList"
>> >     (procedure "pkg_mkIndex" line 53)
>> >     invoked from within
>> > "pkg_mkIndex /tmp/brltty-mkwin/brltty/mingw/lib/brlapi-0.6.2
>> brlapi_tcl.dll"
>> >     (file "./mkindex" line 1)
>> >
>> > I am unable to understand the cause of the error, there is a file
>> > brlapi_tcl.dll in /tmp/brltty-mkwin/brltty/mingw/lib/brlapi-0.6.2/ but
>> it
>> > appears to be corrupted. I cannot even locate "procedure "pkg_mkIndex
>> line 53"
>>
>> It seems that comes from Bindings/Tcl/Makefile.in, and for some reason
>> it doesn't work.
>>
>> > How do I resolve it?
>>
>> I actually never built the tcl bindings on Windows :)
>> You can probably modify mkwin to add --disable-tcl-bindings in
>> configure_line.
>>
>> Samuel
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