pdf2xml

How to compile pdf2xml.exe for Windows?

Asked by Mike Tonks

The Makefile in the source package works perfectly on Ubuntu.

Can you offer any advice on how to compile a windows version, e.g. using mingw or cygwin?

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Matthew Talbert (ransom1982) said : 		#1

Cygwin should be fairly simple, just get the right packages, and it should work just as on Ubuntu. However, I haven't tried it on Cygwin, so I don't know for sure.

For MinGW, it's slightly more complicated. You first need to have a working compilation environment with MSYS. After that, I compiled libpoppler myself. All of the dependencies I got from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/ After installing libpoppler, I had to manually copy many of the headers that libpoppler doesn't install by default. After that, the Makefile should work just fine.

I'm sorry I don't have time right now to make more explicit instructions; I will try to do that soon.

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