Re: error on building the windows installer

[Huashan Chen <chenhuashan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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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