On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 08:15:12PM +0200, Danny Backx wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 20:20 -0700, Eric House wrote: > > We've discussed before that the free-software tools for building .cab > > files on Linux produce files that Smartphone (but not PocketPC) > > doesn't recognize. But I wonder if anybody's found a way around this. > > I tried installing a downloadable tool from Microsoft's site in Wine > > but failed -- it was too long ago for me to remember any details -- > > and wonder if anybody else has had any luck. > > Hmm, at what did you fail ? Downloading something, or making it work ?
Last night I spent some time looking for something to download that would provide cabwiz.exe and failed. I believe that when I tried it before I found packages that ought to contain it, but was unable to install them under WINE. > I've had partial success with building CABs as you know. I have the > feeling that there's some "rule" about all this that we might be > missing. Maybe if I knew what not to do, I could rewrite the package > file, and the tool would create a fully functional cab. > > Would it be worthwile to collect a couple of cabs and try to analyse > them ? Yes, to look at the relation between inputs and outputs, and how the cabwiz-created .cab differs from the one done with FOSS tools. > > It appears Sourceforge has screwed up their site such that developers > > are expected to provide *one* downloadable file for all users. > > One per platform, actually. That's per platform being used to download, not per platform the downloaded software targets. They don't even list mobile platforms among those the download site is aware of. > > Unfortunately, I need to provide a .zip file to Smartphone owners and > > a .cab to PocketPc owners (there's no unzip on PocketPc!) > > That should not be a problem, look at what I did with the 0.59.1 release > at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cegcc/files . I'm talking about the file that's the default for the project, that you get when you click the big green button. If your users are sophisticated enough to use the file view then you have more tools for communicating (and they likely have a clue, which helps. :-) --Eric -- ****************************************************************************** * From the desktop of: Eric House, xwo...@eehouse.org * * Crosswords 4.2 for MS Smartphone and PocketPC is out: xwords.sf.net * ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry® Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9-12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconf _______________________________________________ Cegcc-devel mailing list Cegcc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cegcc-devel
