[sword-devel] Win32 FileMgr Subclass

[Tobias Klein]

I'm using the Visual Studio compilers. All modern VS compilers are 
available via GitHub Actions! I'm most of the time letting GitHub build my 
Windows binaries, but I do have Visual Studio 2017 installed in a Windows 
10 VM for debugging.

Tobias

Am 18. Juli 2020 22:53:23 schrieb "Troy A. Griffitts" <scribe at crosswire.org>:
> OK guys, another question.
> What exactly does your build environment look like these days for win32?  I 
> just tried to boot one of my old Windows VMs with 
> Borland/Inprise/Embarcadero build tools and it is in such a sad state, I am 
> not even going to attempt to recover that world right now.  I'd rather 
> support your build environments.  What are you using? cygwin? MicrosoftVS? 
> Something else?
> Troy
>
> On 7/18/20 7:53 PM, Tobias Klein wrote:
>> Thanks Greg & Troy for pointing out these potential issues. No, I have not 
>> tested my code properly with non-ascii characters in paths / file names.
>>
>> I suppose this would particularly be an issue if the username has certain 
>> characters that cause issues? (applicable for the ~/.sword directory). And 
>> then also, when arbitrary folders are added to SWMgr?!
>>
>> I’ll do some testing in this area!
>>
>> I wonder whether libraries like Qt or Boost have solved these kind of 
>> issues somehow …
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>>
>> From: Greg Hellings
>> Sent: Samstag, 18. Juli 2020 15:58
>> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
>> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Win32 FileMgr Subclass
>>
>> Tobias,
>>
>> Has this been tested with file paths that contain characters outside of the 
>> basic ASCII code range? That's where current Sword fails. Not in fetching 
>> the data for the paths themselves, but the actual calls to fopen and 
>> friends, on Windows, do not understand non ASCII data.
>>
>> It looks like your code would suffer similar to other Sword code, which 
>> eventually passes through the library's fopen calls.
>>
>> On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 08:24 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:
>> Maybe not a full-fledged FileMgr class, but at least everything I need in 
>> Ezra Project at the moment:
>>
>> https://github.com/tobias-klein/node-sword-interface/blob/master/src/sword_backend/file_system_helper.hpp
>>
>> https://github.com/tobias-klein/node-sword-interface/blob/master/src/sword_backend/file_system_helper.cpp
>>
>> It works on Windows, macOS and Linux.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Tobias
>> From: Troy A. Griffitts
>> Sent: Samstag, 18. Juli 2020 14:42
>> To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
>> Subject: [sword-devel] Win32 FileMgr Subclass
>>
>> I know Greg has sent me a link to the patch you guys apply to get Xiphos
>> to run well on Win32, but I have searched through all my past emails
>> with every relevant term I can thing of, and still can't find it.  I am
>> sorry,  Could you possibly sent that again? I think you guys were using
>> glib routines.  If possible, I'd like to include something in SWORD more
>> generic, possibly using native Win32 calls.  I've done something similar
>> for a couple projects in the past and need to find all that code.  The
>> only one I keep thinking of off the top of my head is swordreader's
>> wince layer, which I believe is similar to win32 methods, but might need
>> some adapting.
>>
>> http://crosswire.org/svn/swordreader/trunk/src/Dll1/winceSword/src/
>>
>> The Xiphos code would be very helpful, if not just for finding
>> everyplace you needed to make a modification.  Thanks for any help
>> finding it,
>>
>> Troy
>>
>>
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