First useable version of the portable scribble merger released.

[Viacheslav]

How to get past this?

$./configure
...
checking for library containing sqlite3_open... -lsqlite3
configure: checking for CamlPDF installation...
File "conftest.ml", line 2, characters 18-37:
Unbound value Pdfdoc.add_pagetree
configure: error: compilation of CamlPDF test program failed
See `config.log' for more details.

SQLite and Ocaml are installed.

This message is meaningless for everyone except Caml developers.

[pthwaite]

Yes, especially if like some we are not programmers. I too have managed to get the Caml & Sqlite working, on the MAC, but cannot get the pdf part to work & at this point have given up. Hopefully some clever person can eventually "Macify" the programme. I don't think the "make" is part of the default Mac software.

[thomega]

Originally Posted by Viacheslav

How to get past this?

$./configure
...
configure: error: compilation of CamlPDF test program failed

SQLite and Ocaml are installed.

Have you installed CamlPDF? Judging from the message, configure doesn't find it...

[Viacheslav]

Originally Posted by thomega

Have you installed CamlPDF? Judging from the message, configure doesn't find it...

I found the Camlpdf (although its homepage no longer exists). It builds fine and produces its helloworld pdf.

BUT, How do I install it? There is no make install target in camlpdf and my attempts to copy it to /usr/lib/ocaml did not help. Finally I simply copied ocamlpdf to the irextools dir and the error changed to

checking for library containing sqlite3_open... -lsqlite3
configure: checking for CamlPDF installation...
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcamlpdf_stubs
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Error while building custom runtime system
configure: error: compilation of CamlPDF test program failed
See `config.log' for more details.

[thomega]

Originally Posted by Viacheslav

How do I install it?

You don't. Just use the --with-camlpdf=<directory> option of configure to point it to the directory where you compiled CamlPDF. Alternatively, --with-camlpdf=build will download and compile CamlPDF and set the correct directory.

[Angela Fabregues]

Merger for Linux
I am completely nivice in Linux. I would like to install the merger but apart for uncompresing the .tar file I know nothing. Should the merger be installed on the DR or in the Linux machine? Perhaps someone would be patient enough to give me detailed instructions.

In your computer.

Download the merger, uncompress and take a look to the INSTALL file. There is an explanation there. (./configure, make and make install have to be introduced using a Terminal).

I use MacOs. And I had problems with ocaml installation. The merger seems to require a complete installation of ocaml libraries. The ocaml sql package is not hosted where it is referred in the INSTALL file.

Good luck.

[pthwaite]

Hmm, but I don't have the "make" command available in the MAC OS. Where did you get it/install it from?

[Viacheslav]

Originally Posted by thomega

You don't. Just use the --with-camlpdf=<directory> option of configure to point it to the directory where you compiled CamlPDF. Alternatively, --with-camlpdf=build will download and compile CamlPDF and set the correct directory.

configure --with-ocaml-sqlite3=build --with-camlpdf=build does not work . ocaml-sqlite3-1.2.0 no longer exists. It was replaced by 1.3.0, which fails to build with

config.status: creating META
ocamlc -w A -warn-error A -pp "cpp -DHAS_ENABLE_LOAD_EXTENSION" -c sqlite3.mli
ocamlc -w A -warn-error A -pp "cpp -DHAS_ENABLE_LOAD_EXTENSION" -c sqlite3.ml
gcc -I/usr/lib/include -I/usr/lib/ocaml -g -O2 -DHAS_ENABLE_LOAD_EXTENSION -fPIC -Wall -pedantic -Werror -Wno-long-long   -c -o sqlite3_stubs.o sqlite3_stubs.c
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
sqlite3_stubs.c: In function 'ref_count_finalize_dbw':
sqlite3_stubs.c:280: warning: implicit declaration of function 'caml_remove_generational_global_root'
sqlite3_stubs.c: In function 'register_user_function':
sqlite3_stubs.c:1013: warning: implicit declaration of function 'caml_register_generational_global_root'
make: *** [sqlite3_stubs.o] Error 1
configure: error:  failed
See `config.log' for more details.

What can be done here? I tried to compile caml-sqlite3 autonomously, but it fails . libsqlite3-devel and static devel files ver3.5 are installed.

I wish it were written in C, so it would be possible to run the merger on the reader itself...

[thomega]

Originally Posted by Viacheslav

I wish it were written in C

I'm not masochistic enough to rewrite it.

Originally Posted by Viacheslav

so it would be possible to run the merger on the reader itself...

Why? We can't print from the reader anyway.

[thomega]

Originally Posted by Viacheslav

What can be done here? I tried to compile caml-sqlite3 autonomously, but it fails . libsqlite3-devel and static devel files ver3.5 are installed.

Indeed, it appears that version 1.3.0 of ocaml-sqlite is broken . Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I have to contact the developer. (Version 1.2.0 can still be downloaded from the release repository, but it is a pain to find).

In the meantime, I have made a new release of irextools https://forge.ocamlcore.org/frs/down...ols-0.3.tar.gz that includes working versions of the external O'Caml libraries. If you have SQLite3 installed (the C version not the O'Caml interface), configure should work now without any arguments.

[thomega]

Originally Posted by Angela Fabregues

The merger seems to require a complete installation of ocaml libraries.

Except for CamlPDF and ocaml-sqlite3, the base O'Caml distribution should suffice.

Originally Posted by Angela Fabregues

The ocaml sql package is not hosted where it is referred in the INSTALL file.

Thanks for pointing that out. It appears that Markus (the ocaml-sqlite3 developer) was a bit overzealous with cleaning up during the christmas period.

I have now decided to include working versions of all the libraries that are required beyond a base install.

[thomega]

http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/irextools/

This release

• includes working versions of the external O'Caml libraries for PDF files and SQLite3 databases. This makes the .tar.gz file three times as large, but should make ./configure; make simpler and much more robust.

[godel10]

First of all, my gratitute to the author of this great software (a week ago I was able to compile the 0.2 version, and it is working greatly.

By the way, is there any other change in the 0.3 version besides the inclusion of the libraries?

[thomega]

Originally Posted by godel10

First of all, my gratitute to the author of this great software

You're welcome.

Originally Posted by godel10

By the way, is there any other change in the 0.3 version besides the inclusion of the libraries?

Nothing much: minor bugfixes (thumbnails where not copied correctly), some more file extensions are recognized, beginnings of man pages, a first trivial version of "irext paste".

[curbarthedog]

is there any chance any of you kind people could give an "idiots guide" to installing this? I have looked at the "install" instructions and to be honest, they make little sense to me.

For the linux beginners / idiots / newbies / .... (delete as appropriate) it would be very useful