This is a port of JasPer 1.900.0 to MSDOS/DJGPP. 1.: DJGPP specific changes. ======================= There are no changes to the sources except for those needed to solve SFN issues on plain DOS. Only the usual configuration files have been added. They are located in the /djgpp subdir. As for all binaries and libraries that handle images of any kind, it should be noticed that files (streams) are *always* openend in binary mode with all the well known implications on a DOS/WINDOWS OS if the stream is connected to STDIN and/or STDOUT when these are still connected to the console. To configure and compile the sources you will need LFN support. This means that you can only unzip and build the binaries on an OS that offers LFN support like a DOS box of Win9X, WinXP, etc. There will be no support for the building on plain DOS by me. IMHO this is not worth to be done nowadays if the amount of work exceeds certain limit. Of course, the distributed and/or build binaries and libraries will *always* work on plain DOS. To use and compile from sources this library you will have to install the zlib and jpeg or ljpeg libraries. Please *read* the docs located in /jasper-1.900/doc. 2.: Installing the binary package. ============================== 2.1.: Copy the binary distribution into the top DJGPP installation directory, just unzip it preserving the directory structure running *ONE* of the following commands: unzip32 jas1900b.zip or djtarx jas1900b.zip or pkunzip -d jas1900b.zip 3.: Building the binaries from sources. =================================== 3.1.: Create a temporary directory and copy the source package into the directory. If you download the source distribution from one of the DJGPP sites, just unzip it preserving the directory structure running *ONE* of the following commands: unzip32 jas1900s.zip or djtarx jas1900s.zip or pkunzip -d jas1900s.zip 3.2.: To build the binaries you will need the following binary packages: djdev203.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version) bsh205b.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version) gcc411b.zip, gpp411b.zip, bnu2161b.zip, mak3792b.zip, fil40b.zip, shl20jb.zip, txt20b.zip, txi48b.zip, grep24b.zip, sed415b.zip, png1210b.zip and zlib123b.zip If you want to run the check you will need also: dif287b.zip All this packages can be found in the v2gnu directory of any ftp.delorie.com mirror. You will need bsh204b.zip or later and *NOT* a prior version or the build will fail. The same applies to djdev203.zip. All the other packages are the ones I have used to build the binaries from this source. Previuos versions of this packages may do the job as well but I have not tested this. 3.3.: If for some reason you want to reconfigure the package cd into the top srcdir (jasper-1.900) and run the following commands: del djgpp\config.cache make distclean djgpp\config Please note that you *MUST* delete the config.cache file in the djgpp subdir or you will not really reconfigure the sources because the configuration informations will be read from the cache file instead of being newly computed. To build the programs in a directory other than where the sources are, you must add the parameter that specifies the source directory, e.g: x:\src\contrib\jasper-1.900\djgpp\config x:/src/contrib/jasper-1.900 Lets assume you want to build the binaries in a directory placed on a different drive (z:\build in this case) from where the sources are, then you will run the following commands: z: md \build cd \build x:\src\contrib\jasper-1.900\djgpp\config x:/src/contrib/jasper-1.900 The order of the options and the srcdir option does not matter. You *MUST* use forward slashes to specify the source directory. The batch file will set same environment variables, make MSDOS specific modifications to the Makefile.in's and supply all other needed options to the configure script. 3.4.: To compile the package run from the top srcdir the command: make 3.5.: To install the binaries, header, library, catalogs, and info docs run the following command from the top srcdir: make install This will install the products into your DJGPP installation tree given by the default prefix "/dev/env/DJDIR". If you prefer to install them into some other directory you will have to set prefix to the appropiate value: make install prefix=z:/some/other/place Send jasper specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel