Changeset 35595 for main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/indexers/packages/windows/iconv/GS-README-VS14-VS2015-AND-LATER.txt

Timestamp:

2021-10-14T17:45:13+13:00 (3 years ago)

Author:

davidb

Message:

Updated README file to reflect file name changes in the zip files used

File:

• main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/indexers/packages/windows/iconv/GS-README-VS14-VS2015-AND-LATER.txt (modified) (2 diffs)

main/trunk/greenstone2/common-src/indexers/packages/windows/iconv/GS-README-VS14-VS2015-AND-LATER.txt

@@ -1 +1 @@
 *****************************************************************
-COMPILING LIBICONV ON WINDOWS USING VS14/VS2015 AND LATER
+COMPILING LIBICONV ON WINDOWS USING VS14 AND LATER
 *****************************************************************
-In order to get libiconv to compile with Visual Studio 14 (which is Visual Studio 2015) and later,
-I needed to do the following to produce gs-libiconv-winVS14-VS2015-plus.zip now uploaded on GS SVN
+In order to get libiconv to compile with Visual Studio v14 (which is Visual Studio 2015) and later,
+I needed to do the following to produce iconv-VS14-PLUS.zip now uploaded on GS SVN
 at GS2\common-src\indexers\packages\windows\iconv
 
-For compiling GS3 with VS14 (VS2015) and later, after running ant prepare, rename this zip file as "iconv.zip" 
-and then proceed to run ant install.
-
+The build scripts have been updated to test %VisualStudioVersion%, and if it is < 14.0, then
+the original (older) iconv.zip files is used (renamed to iconv-PRE-VS14,zip for consitency reasons)
+otherwise iconv-VS14-PLUS.zip is used.
 
 [
-NO NEED FOR STEP 1, as windows' iconv.zip requires the same changes as the linux gs-libiconv 1.11 tarball to get it to compile on windows anyway:
+NO NEED FOR STEP 1, as windows' iconv-PRE-VS14.zip requires the same changes as the linux gs-libiconv 1.11 tarball to get
+it to compile on windows anyway:
 
 X 1. Libiconv 1.11 appears to be the last version of the package that can be compiled with Visual Studio.
@@ -21 +22 @@
 where I untarred it and made the following changes (points 2 and 3 below). 
 Then I renamed the untarred version from libiconv-1.11 to iconv
-and finally I zipped it up to produce iconv.zip.
+and finally I zipped it up to produce a new (alternative) for iconv.zip.
 ]