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BUILDING SCRIBUS ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS WITH MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO
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This documentation is minimal and assume you have a decent knowledge of
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Microsoft Visual Studio. No help regarding use of Visual Studio and
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related tools will be provided.
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- Microsoft Windows XP, Vista or 7
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- Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Visual C++ Express Edition 2008
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- A recent Qt (version >= 4.6) release built with Visual Studio 2008
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- Cairo sources from cairographics.org (version >= 1.8.0)
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- Pixman sources from cairographics.org (version >= 0.12.0)
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- Boost from www.boost.org (version >= 1.35.0)
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- Libxml2 win32 binaries from the Libxml project
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- Libjpeg win32 libs and binaries from the GnuWin32 project
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- Libtiff win32 libs and binaries from the GnuWin32 project
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- Freetype sources from freetype.org (version >= 2.4.0)
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- LittleCMS sources from www.littlecms.com (version >= 2.1)
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- PoDoFo sources (version >= 0.8.x) from podofo.sourceforge.net
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- A Python 2.7 Windows binary build.
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For debug builds, you'll need a release that contains the python27_d.dll .
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Some more details can be found below in the section entitled GETTING DEPENDENCIES.
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After having installed all dependencies, open Scribus-build.vsprops files located
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in Scribus\win32\vc9 and update the dependency paths to match your system.
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Open the Visual Studio solution located in Scribus\win32\vc9 and start building. The *-cairo
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configurations will build Scribus with cairo renderer. The *-arthur configurations will buid
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Scribus using qt arthur renderer. Note : official Scribus builds use cairo as render.
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After building completed, you will find executables in a Scribus-builds\scribus-vc9-*\scribus
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directory located in same directory as Scribus sources. Those executables will not function yet.
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Scribus resources must be copied from source directory to install directory first.
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In order to do that, create a batch script and copy/paste following lines :
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set SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH=.\Scribus
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set SCRIBUS_BUILD_ROOT=.\Scribus-builds
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set SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH=.\Scribus-builds\scribus-vc9-debug-cairo\scribus
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\AUTHORS %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\doc
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\COPYING %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\doc
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\LINKS %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\doc
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\TRANSLATION %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\doc
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\doc %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\doc /s /y /D
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\dicts %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\dicts /s /y /D
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\editorconfig %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\editorconfig /s /y
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\icons %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\icons /s /y /D
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\loremipsum %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\loremipsum /s /y
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\profiles %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\libs\profiles /s /y
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\swatches %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\libs\swatches /s /y
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\resources\templates %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\templates /s /y /D
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\tools\pathcut\*.png %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\icons\ /y
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\tools\pathfinder\*.png %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\icons\ /y
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\scriptplugin\scripts %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\scripts /s /y /D
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xcopy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\scriptplugin\samples %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\samples /s /y
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\psimport\import.prolog %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\libs\import.prolog
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\plugins\barcodegenerator\barcode.ps %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\plugins\barcode.ps
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copy %SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH%\scribus\unicodemap\unicodenameslist.txt %SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH%\share\unicodenameslist.txt
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del %SCRIBUS_BUILD_ROOT%\*CMake* /s
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del %SCRIBUS_BUILD_ROOT%\*MakeFile* /s
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Adjust SCRIBUS_SRC_PATH, SCRIBUS_BUILD_ROOT and SCRIBUS_INSTALL_PATH as needed and run batch script.
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Now copy the DLLs from the zlib, libpng, qt, lcms, freetype, libtiff, libjpeg,
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libxml, and podofo directories into the Scribus install directory (where
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scribus.exe is). Copy also the Dlls, lib and tcl directories from your python
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install to scribus install path. Finally copy python27.dll. Scribus should now run.
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Crash problems at runtime? Verify that Qt, freetype, lcms, and Scribus all use
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the same runtime, and that all were built for debugging or all for release not
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a mixture of the two. Windows does not permit you to mix debug and release
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executables like other platforms do.
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You can use depends.exe to check that the runtimes match.
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This is a quick and dirty set of notes that will be filled out once everything's
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verified as correct and working. It asssumes that you'll be building all your
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dependencies at a single root, like C:\Developer. The root *MUST* not have spaces
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Download the latest qt >= 4.6 snapshot from ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/qt/source
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and unpack it to C:\Developer.
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Start a command line and import your Visual Studio environment:
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\path\to\visual\studio\VC\vcvarsall.bat
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now cd to C:\Developer\qt-everywhere-whatever and run configure:
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configure -debug-and-release -fast -no-qt3support -platform win32-msvc2008
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Download the latest boost libraries from www.boost.org. Unpack, no need to compile
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anything as Scribus only use functionnalities embedded in C++ templates.
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Zlib and LibPNG are both embedded in the QtCore library with symbols exported
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for public use . If you're using a Qt binary redist you may still need to
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download these libraries sources for their headers. In most cases your
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copy of Qt will contain a directory called %QTDIR%\src\3rdparty\zlib
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(and one for libpng), in which case you need not worry about these libraries at
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Cairo and pixman sources can be downloaded from cairographics.org at following address :
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http://cairographics.org/releases/
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Follow instructions in sources packages to build pixman, then cairo.
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You will however probably find easier to directly download packages with Visual Studio 2008
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solutions ready to build. You can find required file at following address :
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-libs/win32-msvc2008/
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Download the both scribus-pixman-* and scribus-cairo-* zip files. Unpack them.
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Build pixman first : open the PixManWin32 solution located in pixman-whatever\win32
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directory and build Debug and Release configurations.
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Build cairo afterwards : open the CairoWin32 solution located in cairo-whatever\win32
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directory and build Debug and Release configurations.
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While Qt also bundles libjpeg, it's not linked to the main DLL but rather a plugin.
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As such, we need to link to it directly.
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Get jpeg libraries from GnuWin32 project on Sourceforge :
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/jpeg/6b-3/jpeg-6b-3-lib.zip/download
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Unpack in C:\Developer. After unpacking you directory layout must be as following :
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Get lcms sources (>= 2.1). Although it is possible to build Scribus with lcms 1,
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you can only do so without modifying lcms sources with lcms >= 2.1.
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We will only describe here instructions related to lcms >= 2.1.
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Build using VC project in Projects\VC2008 dir. Modify projects if necessary so
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as to make them use the multithreaded dll runtim libraries.
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Build the static libraries in debug and release configurations.
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After building you must have a lcms2_static.lib and lcms2_staticd.lib in
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your lcms source directory. If this is not the case modify projects as necessary.
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While Qt also bundles libtiff, it's not linked to the main DLL but rather a plugin.
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As such, we need to link to it directly.
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Download libtiff libraries, binaries and dependency packages from GnuWin32 project
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuwin32/files/tiff/3.8.2/
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Unpack them in C:\Developer. After unpacking you directory layout must be as following :
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Open include\freetype\config\ftoption.h and replace the DLL export compilation section
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# define __DLL_IMPORT__ __declspec(dllimport)
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# define __DLL_EXPORT__ __declspec(dllexport)
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# define __DLL_IMPORT__ __attribute__((dllimport)) extern
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# define __DLL_EXPORT__ __attribute__((dllexport)) extern
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#if (defined __WIN32__) || (defined _WIN32)
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# ifdef BUILD_FREETYPE2_DLL
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP __DLL_EXPORT__
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# elif defined(FREETYPE2_STATIC)
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP
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# elif defined (USE_FREETYPE2_DLL)
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP __DLL_IMPORT__
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# elif defined (USE_FREETYPE2_STATIC)
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP
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# else /* assume USE_FREETYPE2_DLL */
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP __DLL_IMPORT__
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#else /* __WIN32__ */
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# define FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP
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#define FT_EXPORT(x) FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP x
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#define FT_BASE(x) FREETYPE2_DLL_IMPEXP x
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Open builds\win32\vc2008
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Build "Release Multithreaded" and "Debug Multithreaded"
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At the end of the process you must have those files in your freetype lib
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Download libxml2 and icon win32 binaries from following address :
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ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/
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Note that these binaries do not use the same runtime
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as the rest of the binaries we're building. Feel free to
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rebuild libxml to fix this, but in practice it doesn't
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matter since we never pass a FILE* nor do we allocate memory
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to be deallocated in libxml or vice versa.
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Remember that iconv from the same package must be on the
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header search path too. If in doubt, just drop iconv.h
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into the libxml tree.
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Podofo sources can be downloaded from podofo.sourceforge.net. At the moment
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those instructions are written, the recommended version to build Scribus on
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Windows is one of the 0.8.x series.
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Follow instructions in sources packages to build Podofo.
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You will however probably find easier to directly download packages with Visual
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Studio 2008 solutions ready to build. You can find required file at
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-libs/win32-msvc2008/
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Download the scribus-podofo-*.zip archive. Unpack it.
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Open the podofo solution located in podofo-whatever directory and build
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Debug and Release configurations of PoDoFoLib project.
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Note : freetype, libtiff and libjpeg must have been installed and if
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necessary compiled before attempting to build podofo.
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Download latest Python 2.7 binaries (and only 2.7, 3.x will not work).
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Copy the python27.lib file in python 'libs' directory to python27_d.lib
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Open pyconfig.h in python include directory
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Replace those lines :
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BUILDING_win32_msvc.txt
