[sword-devel] Win32 FileMgr Subclass

[Greg Hellings]

For Xiphos we use the MinGW compiler and library from Xiphos. You should be
able to grab them via Cygwin as well, if you prefer? I haven't run actual
Windows in a life age to know, though.

Greg

On Sat, Jul 18, 2020, 16:57 Tobias Klein <contact at tklein.info> wrote:

> 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 <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *Samstag, 18. Juli 2020 15:58
>> *To: *SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> *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 <scribe at crosswire.org>
>> *Sent: *Samstag, 18. Juli 2020 14:42
>> *To: *SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
>> *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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