Re: reports of pspp-0.6.0-pre3

[John Darrington]

OK.  I've had a quick look at that URL and made an unofficial tarball
at http://darrington.wattle.id.au/pspp-0.4.3-dll.tar.gz

It builds a file cygpsppire-0.dll and installs it in
/usr/local/lib/bin 
I've no idea if this dll will actually work; for some reason my Cygwin
environment won't run psppire (it exits with status 53 before even
entering main).

If this works, then we can incorporate it into the release.  If not,
then I don't know what we can do.

J'


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 07:48:20AM +0800, john wrote:
     I found some useful information at 
     http://sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_251.html which might
     help us.  I won't be able to get around to looking at this until the
     later half of next week.  So if somebody wants to do it first, then
     feel free.  
     
     Reading the information in that URL, it seems that there's a lot
     of "black magic" involved in creating and loading dynamic libraries on
     w32 platforms.  Some of this magic has to be done on our part, but
     some also has to have been done by the libglade developers.  I've no
     idea if they would have done this (or even been aware of the
     requirement).   If not, then I'm afraid that we'll not be able to run
     psppire on cygwin :(
     Also, windoze is a platform with which I have only a very shallow
     familiarity, so I will not be surprised if I get totally stuck.
     
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