Building XSane 0.96 for OS/2

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Here some information how to build XSane 0.96 for OS/2.
First of all you need the sources of XSane 0.96
You need the same tools / environement / libs as described in my page for building SANE 1.0.14 and you need a libsane.a (which you will have if you managed to build scanimage).
For TIFF-support you need a ported tiff-library. I used tiff34.zip

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xsane.exe

I used the following steps to build xsane.exe :

1. In /XFree86/lib   convert /libgimp122.lib   to libginp122.a   with
   emximp -o libgimp122.a libgimp122.lib
2. sh configure --disable-sanetest --disable-gtktest --disable-gimptest --with-sane-prefix=/usr --enable-gimp --disable-gtk2 --prefix=/XFree86
3. In xsane-0.96/src/Makefile
   change
   LIBS = -lgimp -LG:/XFree86/lib .... -lz -lm
   to
   LIBS = -llibgimp122 -LG:/XFree86/lib .... -lz /usr/lib/libsane.a -lpthreads -liconv
   
4. In line 9027 of xsane-0.96/src/xsane.c
   change
   #if 0
   to
   #if 1
   
5. make
   
6. make install
   
7. Copy
   src/xsane.exe
   to
   /XFree86/bin/xsane.exe
   
8. Delete
   /XFree86/bin/xsane
   and
   /XFree86/lib/X11/.gimp-1.2/plug-ins/sbin
9. If you don't have allready, manually create the directory ~/.sane
   ~ has to be replaced with the value of your HOME environement variable.

Hardware that is known to work with this version:

• EPSON: GT-9500 on eCS with SANE 1.0.14
• Send me your feedback

Hardware that is known to work with previous versions:

• Microtek: Scanmaker 330 (with HOBLink X11-Server)

Scan, Copy and OCR   work. I did not try/use Mail or Fax. If you find a way to make Fax work, please tell me.

XSane works here standalone and also as GIMP-Plugin.

If you don't have the time/wish to build XSane yourself, you can DOWNLOAD THE BINARY PACKAGE.
Here's the link to the Xsane-0.96-README for OS/2
You need a working version of SANE an X11-server and some additional dll's in /XFree86/lib or somewhere else in your libpath (if you don't have them allready installed) to run XSane.

dll	available for example at
gtk12.dll, gdk12.dll	http://os2ports.com/ftp/pub/os2/unix/xfree86/ports/Gnome/gtk128.zip
gmodule.dll, glib12.dll	http://os2ports.com/ftp/pub/os2/unix/xfree86/ports/Gnome/glib128.zip
intl.dll	http://os2ports.com/ftp/pub/os2/unix/xfree86/ports/libs/gettext.zip
png.dll	http://os2ports.com/ftp/pub/os2/unix/xfree86/ports/graphic_libs/libpng103.zip
tiff.dll	http://os2ports.com/ftp/pub/os2/unix/xfree86/ports/graphic_libs/tiff34.zip
jpeg.dll	http://www.os2site.com/leo/devtools/libraries/jpeg6b.zip
z.dll	http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/zlib/zlib114.zip

Tell me if I missed one.
I use my own build of SANE 1.0.14 (but it should also work with other SANE's which have a libsane.dll like the 1.05 version provided by Paul Smedley).
It works here with both XFree86 for OS/2 Version 4.3.0 and also with HOBLink X11. It should with other XServers too.
But be careful and allways have a backup, You might get TRAPs. It runs fine with my hardware (without TRAPs now), but is not much tested elsewhere.
Tell me whether it works for you.

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Thanks to Oliver Rauch who helped me to make this work and included the OS/2 specific changes, which were necessary to build this release, into the source-code. Thanks also to Christian Hennecke for the first positive feedback, James for the pointer to z.dll and Dave for the info how to convert libgimp122.lib to libgimp122.a
I hope, I did not miss something important. Feel free to send me your comments.

Last modified 20 October 2008, Franz Bakan