Who can compile a .c program for me?

[owl123]

In the StarDict-tools package I found a converter that would enable me to have 2 of my dictionaries converted to StarDict (and then to Mobipocket.)

Thing is it's not compiled. It's a ydp2dict.c file. And I have no idea about compiling.

Could someone be so kind and compile it to a Windows binary .exe for me?

The file is in the attachment.

Thanks!

[radius]

Originally Posted by owl123

In the StarDict-tools package I found a converter that would enable me to have 2 of my dictionaries converted to StarDict (and then to Mobipocket.)

Thing is it's not compiled. It's a ydp2dict.c file. And I have no idea about compiling.

Could someone be so kind and compile it to a Windows binary .exe for me?

The file is in the attachment.

Thanks!

Are you sure this is meant to be compiled and run in Windows? It looks more like a Linux program to me... It can still be built for Windows, but it would take more work.

[owl123]

Well, I just want to use it. If you can compile it so that it works with Cygwin with no hassles then I'm fine with it.

[cbell]

If your dict*.dat files are public domain, maybe you could upload them here and someone might run the conversion for you...

[owl123]

Unfortunately they aren't. These are commercial dictionaries.

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by owl123

In the StarDict-tools package I found a converter that would enable me to have 2 of my dictionaries converted to StarDict (and then to Mobipocket.)

Thing is it's not compiled. It's a ydp2dict.c file. And I have no idea about compiling.

Could someone be so kind and compile it to a Windows binary .exe for me?

The file is in the attachment.

Thanks!

Have you tried the pre-compiled Windows binaries of StarDict at Sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=82452
The C sourcecode that you attached looks like it needs to be compiled by GCC, since it definitely is not ANSI C. If it was ANSI C it could be compiled and used anywhere, but as "ydp2dict.c" is written it looks like it is meant to be used on Linux?

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

Have you tried the pre-compiled Windows binaries of StarDict at Sourceforge?
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...ckage_id=82452
The C sourcecode that you attached looks like it needs to be compiled by GCC, since it definitely is not ANSI C. If it was ANSI C it could be compiled and used anywhere, but as "ydp2dict.c" is written it looks like it is meant to be used on Linux?

Why do ou think it is not ANSI C? It uses the glib library so you must install this (or convert all data types and other things so you do not use this library). But a fast look at the code indicated that it is ANSI C.

[HarryT]

A quick look also shows that it uses <lf> as a line separator, and is therefore almost certainly intended for use on a Unix system, rather than Windows.

[owl123]

Dave_S: There's no binary version of ydp2dict converter at Sourceforge (or anywhere else.)

[Dave_S]

Originally Posted by tompe

Why do ou think it is not ANSI C? It uses the glib library so you must install this (or convert all data types and other things so you do not use this library). But a fast look at the code indicated that it is ANSI C.

OK, call it ANSI if you want, but it is certainly not portable. When I first glanced at the code, I thought it was pretty much ANSI C, and therefor easily recompiled for a Windows machine. However, the code relied too much on glib.h, which is not a standard C library, and made it simply too much effort to port, IMHO. A simple filter like that *could* have been written in portable ANSI C using standard C libraries, and then compiled and run anywhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_standard_library

[rhari79]

Hi,

Managed to get these compiled on cygwin:

These are the command lines i had to use(borrowed from stardict-tools and non-essential parts removed):

gcc -Wall -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include ydp2dict.c -lglib-2.0 -o ydp2dict_dyn

gcc -Wall -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include ydp2dict.c -o ydp2dict_st /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.a /usr/lib/libintl.a /usr/lib/libiconv.a

• ydp2dict_dyn links dynamically. So requires all the additional libs like glibc, iconv, intl installed.
• ydp2dict_st is linked statically. So you should be able to use it standalone.

If you dont have full cygwin installed, consider using ydp2dict_st.exe. You will still need a barebone cygwin (at least cygwin1.dll i think).

With the -Wall option, had to make this code change(however compiles well without the -Wall):

bash-3.2$ diff -w ydp2dict-old.c ydp2dict.c
104c104
< p=arr[n].words=malloc(100);
---
> p=arr[n].words=(char*)malloc(100);
178c178
< p=arr[n].trans=malloc(strlen(words)*2);
---
> p=arr[n].trans=(char*)malloc(strlen(words)*2);
bash-3.2$


Simply exec the binary asks for dict100.dat and dict101.dat.
Hope you find it useful.
I have attached the dyn and st cygwin binary exe files in the zip file. This is my first post with an attachment. Do let me know if this works ok.

Thanks
hari

[owl123]

Thanks, hari. Unfortunately I'm getting errors after starting the program:

      4 [main] ydp2dict_st 3688 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION
    537 [main] ydp2dict_st 3688 open_stackdumpfile: Dumping stack trace to ydp2dict_st.exe.stackdump

And the .stackdump content is:

Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION at eip=610CC85A
eax=00000001 ebx=0022F144 ecx=7C809EFA edx=00000000 esi=00000000 edi=610E21A0
ebp=0022EE78 esp=0022EDD0 program=D:\13123123123\ydp2dict_st.exe, pid 3060, thread main
cs=001B ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003B gs=0000 ss=0023
Stack trace:
Frame     Function  Args
0022EE78  610CC85A  (0022F144, 00000000, 00000010, 00000000)
0022EE98  610CCD48  (00000000, 00000010, 00000000, 004010E4)
0022EEF8  610844FF  (00000001, 007D01A0, 007D0090, 6111E673)
0022EFD8  61004DD2  (0022EFF0, FFFFFFFF, 00342250, 0022F020)
0022FF88  6100594F  (00000000, 00000000, 00000000, 00000000)
End of stack trace

When there are no .dat files the program returns no errors.

Thanks for your time, hari.

[rhari79]

Originally Posted by owl123

Thanks, hari. Unfortunately I'm getting errors after starting the program:

The program seems to be very buggy. I tested this now with 2 empty dat files and got these errors.

The app fseeks into both the dat files without checking file size and since the files are empty, cygwin goes bonkers at that time.

I dont have the actual files setup. Could you do a full stardict setup and then try this?
My attempts at compiling stardict-tools failed with some linker errors in gzread/libiconv_open.

--hari

[rhari79]

Originally Posted by rhari79

The program seems to be very buggy.

ydp2dict is meant to work with some prerequisites.These are not well tested and hence the buggy nature.

I think this requires the Collin's english-polish, polish-english dictionary installed. This means the pair of files "dict100.dat, dict100.idx" and "dict101.dat, dict101.idx" must be present in your folder. These seem to be the english-polish and polish-english dicts resp. from the collins dict.

After parsing these files the ydp2dict writes data into /usr/share/stardict/dic/ and creates the files ydp_English_Polish.idx and ydp_English_Polish.dict files.

Since the collins dict is a commercial s/w i cant continue. In case you have this installed, run this program in the directory where the dict files are present. Also ensure that the dir /usr/share/stardict/dic/ exists.

--hari

[owl123]

Creating c:\usr\share\stardict\dic\ dir helped :-) It all works now. Thanks!