Tobias: I found the binary for sane 0.72 on hobbes.nmsu.edu
Bruno
On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 13:01:08 +0200, Tobias Ernst wrote:
>Hallo Bruno!
>
> BS> Since you are not using autoconf and gnu, did you make a separate set
> BS> of makefiles for sane os/2 ? how did you build it ?
>
>I don't know what the original poster did, but as for me: I tried to use ash
>and OS/2 autoconf to configure sane 0.74 for OS/2. Even after using autoconf, I
>had to fix quite some things in the configure script before it worked; took me
>about a days work. Finally, i managed to run configure without error message,
>and after removing the qcam and dc25 drivers from the backend makefile, I was
>even able to run make and got a scanimage.exe. I did not yet take the time to
>figure out where I have to place which files to make it work (presently, it
>only prints somethink like "sane_start: invalid argument", and does not find
>the microtek2 device although I think I configured it).
>
>Given this experience, I still do not have the slightest clue on how to create
>the libsane.dll which I need to run Scaniage/2 or PMSANE. A grep for \.dll in
>all the files did not show a single match.
>
>I think it is hardly feasible to call this thing "available for OS/2" if it
>takes three days to configure and compile it and it still doesn't work.
>
>So - could you please make the makefiles that work and have been used to
>compile sane 0.72 for OS/2 available? Or alternatively, could you please make a
>binary libsane.dll available? I, and I suspect quite some others, would be very
>greatful.
>
>Viele Gre,
>Tobias
>
>P.S.: I have no problems running sane 0.74 with my Microtek 630 on FreeBSD
>using the official FreeBSD port - but I'd really like to use it on OS/2
>instead.
>
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