From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: "cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to build OCRmyPDF under Cygwin, hit a brick wall
Date: Fri, 15 May 2020 21:15:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d9b4a1b-05ba-8ab1-3783-c3d1f04f97b7@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <514bbf03-b259-bd98-c06c-38a794e5b0af@jhmg.net>
On 15.05.2020 20:17, Jim Garrison via Cygwin wrote:
> On 5/14/2020 5:23 PM, René Berber via Cygwin wrote:
> [snip]
>>> if os.name == 'nt':
>>> libname = 'liblept-5'
>>> os.environ['PATH'] = shim_paths_with_program_files()
>>
>> Notice this change in search path, dll files in Windows are executables
>> and they are (must) installed in the system PATH (or the current
>> directory).
>
> $PATH contains /usr/bin
>
>> Either that or python needs the symbols file, like the linker, which in
>> this case would be /usr/lib/liblept.dll.a, which is in the -devel
>> package, but I doubt it.
>
> Installing the -devel package, and undoing my "fix" to leptonica.py
> fixed the problem. I guess I'm now going to have to learn how to
> build a Cygwin package for it.
the usage of import library for linking a library is very standard,
not really Cygwin specific.
headers and import library are almost every time in the libXXX-devel.
In the doubt you can look at the source package info:
https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/leptonica-src.html
> Unfortunately I didn't realize how involved building it on Cygwin was
> going to be and that it would be worth documenting, so I didn't keep
> track of everything I had to do (sigh!)
building for Cygwin is a Unix-like exercise.
May be you started with a Windows-like view ?
>
> How would I gauge interest in having a Cygwin version of OCRmyPDF?
>
from the list at
https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html#installing-with-python-pip
ghostscript \
libexempi3 \
libffi6 \
pngquant \
python3.6 \
qpdf \
tesseract-ocr \
unpaper
the only package NOT available on Cygwin is "unpaper"
Regards
Marco
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