source: main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/README.txt@ 22484

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README ON THE GREENSTONE MODIFICATIONS TO XLHTML
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This package contains two programs:
* ppthtml, which converts Microsoft PowerPoint 95 and 97 files
into html or xml, and
* xlhtml, which converts Microsoft Excel 95 and 97 files.

It has been slightly modified for greenstone use as we only want the
ppt to html program and the xls to html program, and none of the other
programs (summary/diagnostics, man pages, etc).

This version (0.4.9.0) was the latest development snapshot at the
time of writing.

See http://www.xlhtml.org/ for newer versions or more info.

xlhtml is released under the GNU GPL.

20 Feb 2002
John McPherson
NZDL.


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CHANGES FROM 2010 ON
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FILE: packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz 
(Contains original source code + windows-specific makefiles)

The xlhtml package now provides the code to produce the binaries
ppthtml and xlhtml to convert from powerpoint to html and excel to
html.

For a little while we tried a later version of xlhtml (0.5) but went
back to 0.4.9.0, including the necessary modifications, since it was a
bit hard to set up v0.5 for compiling on Linux.


OTHER AFFECTED FILES INCLUDE:
- main/trunk/binaries/windows/bin: the xlthml.exe and ppthtml.exe 
- main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/win32.mak
- main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/configure
- main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/Makefile.in and Makefile
(- main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.5-gs.tar.gz)
- main/trunk/release-kits/kits/rk2/ant-scripts/compile.xml


1. http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz?rev=22107

Revision 22107, 301.3 KB (checked in by kjdon, 2 months ago)

Added windows makefiles. Had to comment out a little bit of code in
xlhtml.c and ppthtml.c that used dir.h - this is no longer
available. The code was getting the drive letter from the filename,
then setting the default drive to that letter.


2. TEMPORARY SHIFT TO xlhtml 0.5 (required too much effort modifying
Linux configure and makefiles to get this to readily configure and
compile from source code, so later we would shift a step back to
xlhtml.0.4.9.0:

http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.5-gs.tar.gz?rev=22137

Revision 22137, 280.8 KB (checked in by ak19, 2 months ago)

Dr Bainbridge got xlhtml (including ppthtml) compiling on XP
again. The executables work on Vista, Windows7 and XP.


3. http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz?rev=22154

Revision 22154, 301.9 KB  (checked in by ak19, 2 months ago)

1. Undoing commit of xlhtml-0.5 from yesterday and this morning since
   its Makefiles are entirely different (from 2005 and use automak
   command and depcomp files regularly). 

2. Replaced this with previously used xlhtml-0.4.9.0, but with all the
   changes made to xlhtml-0.5 (to get that compiling and running on
   Windows XP, Vista, Win7) ported into here.

3. This xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz file has been tested to work on
   Vista, XP, Win7 (both executables and compilation). And it has also
   been tested to compile and run on Linux.


4. Changeset 22155 for main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz
Timestamp:21.05.2010 20:22:28 (2 months ago)
Author:ak19
Message:
Have switched back to xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz since the old version
compiles on Linux (but it now includes all improvements previously
made to xlhtml-0.5.-gs.tar.gz, so that 0.4.9.0 now compiles on Win XP,
Vista and 7, as well as on Linux again.



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5. DELETED NEWER VERSION BEFORE GOING BACK TO THE OLD ONE (WITH
   MODIFICATIONS)
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a) http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/22138
Changeset 22138
Timestamp:20.05.2010 19:55:53 (2 months ago)
Message:
Older version of xlhtml that would compile and work on Windows7, but
would not work after compiling on XP. Nor did it run on Vista.  

Files: 1 removed
        * main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz 

* http://trac.greenstone.org/browser/main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages?rev=22157


b) http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/22146

Changeset 22146
Timestamp: 21.05.2010 14:10:52 (2 months ago)
Author: ak19

Message:
1. In version xlhtml-0.5, there's a Makefile.am which needs depcomp to
   be generated which is done by making configure call: automake -a
   -c.

2. In Makefile.in and Makefile, needed to update the references to
   xlhtml.0.4.9 to refer to xlhtml-0.5 instead, just as was done with
   configure in the previous commit.

Location: main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src/packages
Files: 3 modified
        * Makefile (modified) (1 diff)
        * Makefile.in (modified) (1 diff)
        * configure (modified) (1 diff)


THEN:
c) http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/22154
Changeset 22154
Timestamp: 21.05.2010 20:20:11 (2 months ago)
Author: ak19
Message: Same message as in (3) above.

Location: main/trunk/greenstone2/build-src
Files:  * packages/xlhtml/xlhtml-0.4.9.0-gs.tar.gz (added)
        * win32.mak (modified) (1 diff)


d) http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/22157

Files: 3 modified
   * Makefile (modified) (1 diff)
   * Makefile.in (modified) (1 diff)
   * configure (modified) (1 diff)

Changeset: 22157
Timestamp: 21.05.2010 20:33:02 (2 months ago)
Author: ak19
Message: Same message as in (3) above.


e) http://trac.greenstone.org/changeset/22158
Changeset: 22158
Timestamp: 21.05.2010 20:37:16 (2 months ago)
Author: ak19
Message:
MODIFIED: main/trunk/release-kits/kits/rk2/ant-scripts/compile.xml
Reverting to use xlhtml-0.4.9.0 which has now got all the changes that were made for xlhtml.0.5 (v.0.5 needs depcomp and uses lots of automak(e) calls to compile files on Linux).




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