Re: Building Squish on Windows

[Ross Berteig <Ross@...>]

On 10/2/2014 7:31 AM, mchalkley@mail.com wrote:> ....
> I've tried building Squish on my own, but I keep getting strange
> "Error 2", "The system cannot find the file specified." messages.

Squish works great on Windows, once you get it to build. I recall that I 
did have some trouble with the gzip compression feature. It isn't (or 
wasn't in 2011) used for building squish itself and wouldn't have saved 
anything for my project, so I decided I didn't need it for my immediate 
use case and I didn't pursue the issue.

It looks like the only change I made to build it at the time was to edit 
the Makefile so that it worked with my Windows box. I have the GunWin32 
build of Gnu Make, so those edits just amounted to small tweaks to the 
"squish" target:

squish: squish.lua squishy
	lua squish.lua $(OPTIONS)
	rem chmod +x squish
	lua squish -q gzip
	lua squish -q debug
	lua squish $(OPTIONS) --with-gzip --with-debug

That produced a file named "squish" which I copied into the project 
where I was planning to use it, renaming it to "squish.lua" and invoking 
it in the target project makefile as "lua squish.lua".

I strongly suspect (but never bothered to try) that with LHF's srlua 
built for Windows, that it could be trivially applied to get a 
squish.exe that I could drop on my PATH.

The only external dependency is supposed to be gzip for compression with 
the --gzip option. I have the GnuWin32 build of gzip, but there was some 
issue between that and the deflate compressor provided by squish that I 
never did track down. If I were going to attack that today, I would 
wonder if the gzip.exe was opening its stdout in text mode instead of 
binary mode which is a mistake on Windows that is too easy to make. If 
that were the problem, it would be easily fixed by building gzip from 
sources with small tweaks.

I haven't kept up with the later releases, but thought I'd describe what 
I did then in hopes that it nudges you in the right direction.

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Ross Berteig                               Ross@CheshireEng.com
Cheshire Engineering Corp.           http://www.CheshireEng.com/