Re: error on building the windows installer

[John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Yes, it should be.  The code only uses the embedded data if
the data file is not found under the specified data-dir.
I've tested it on Windows and it seems to work.

Maybe you could say more about the nature of the "failure"
you're seeing.

(By the way, if you specify --reference-doc=PATH, it will use
PATH, not data-dir\PATH.  Could that be the confusion?)

+++ Huashan Chen [Jan 10 13 22:48 ]:
> Hi John,
> 
> I am wondering if it's possible to re-assign another data directory
> with `--data-dir` parameter to pandoc compiled with `embed_data_files`
> flag? I ask because all the following commands failed under Windows.
> 
> >pandoc readme -o readme.docx --reference-docx=ref.docx  --data-dir=d:\pandoc\data\
> >pandoc readme -o readme.docx --reference-docx=ref.docx  --data-dir=data
> >pandoc readme -o readme.docx --reference-docx=ref.docx  --data-dir=.\data\
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Chen, Huashan
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:55 AM, John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > +++ Cesar Romani [Jan 02 13 15:41 ]:
> >> On 29/12/2012 10:34 p.m., John MacFarlane wrote:
> >> > +++ Cesar Romani [Dec 22 12 10:02 ]:
> >> >> On 08/11/2012 01:24 p.m., andrea rossato wrote:
> >> >>> John MacFarlane<fiddlosopher-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>   writes:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>>> In citeproc-hs there also seems to be a bug which shows up when
> >> >> building
> >> >>>>> with the "embed_data_files" flags. I'm going to fix it later this
> >> >>>>> afternoon.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> My present thought is that pandoc's 'library' and 'executable' flags
> >> >>>> create too many problems.  I'm thinking of getting rid of them, and
> >> >>>> adding an embed_data_files flag to embed the data files into
> >> the binary.
> >> >>>> (The added size is fairly insignificant since the binary is already so
> >> >>>> large.)  This would allow you to make a relocatable executable,
> >> not just
> >> >>>> on Windows but on any system.  And it would be fully relocatable --
> >> >>>> copy the binary anywhere and it will work, without the need of
> >> >>>> supporting data files.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> This would also solve the problem with man pages noted above, as
> >> >>>> we would no longer need the -library flag.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Anyway, I was going to use citeproc-hs as a model, so let me know what
> >> >>>> the problem was!
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The problem was just me: I didn't check if the code compiled with the
> >> >>> "embed_data_files" flag before releasing 0.3.6.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The bug was due to the fact that when moving to hexpat I started using
> >> >>> lazy bytestrings for reading files, while embed-file uses strict
> >> >>> bytestrings, hence a type error -- easily fixed.
> >> >>
> >> >> After compiling from the newest update from the git repository, 'make'
> >> >> and 'make install' work fine, but I'm always getting the same error by
> >> >> building the windows installer make-windows-installer.bat:
> >> >>
> >> >> Linking dist\build\pandoc\pandoc.exe ...
> >> >> Preprocessing executable 'make-pandoc-man-pages' for pandoc-1.10...
> >> >> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package-id pandoc-1.10-inplace
> >> >>      (use -v for more information)
> >> >> cabal.exe: Error: some packages failed to install:
> >> >> pandoc-1.10 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
> >> >> ExitFailure 1
> >> >>
> >> >> The error occurs by the line:
> >> >> cabal-dev install --flags="executable -library blaze_html_0_5"
> >> --datasubdir=
> >> >
> >> > Yes, when you tried this I hadn't yet made the change discussed above.
> >> > I have made it now but have not yet tested the windows installer.
> >> > You may do so if you wish.
> >> >
> >> > Be sure to do a 'git submodule update' after 'git pull'.
> >>
> >> I did it, but on 'make' I get:
> >> $ make
> >> cabal-dev configure --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks && cabal-dev build
> >> Configuring pandoc-1.10...
> >> setup.exe: At least the following dependencies are missing:
> >> Diff ==0.2.*
> >> Resolving dependencies...
> >> make: *** [all] Error 1
> >>
> >> Then I did 'cabal install Diff' but I get the same result.
> >
> > Well, the message is telling you that you don't have the Diff 0.2
> > library, which is a dependency of pandoc.  Try 'make prep' to
> > install all the dependencies.
> >
> > ('cabal install' won't help anyway, since the Makefile is using
> > a cabal-dev sandbox.  You could do 'cabal update && cabal-dev install').
> >
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