Windows compiling

[samishchandra]

Orig Title: not an issue, but can u let me know how to make the lib work in windows.
I kind of skimmed through the code, and confident that it works well, because it doesn't extra errors since it acts like a perfect wrapper for the original tesseract.

Thanks.

[gregjurman]

I am not sure entirely how to compile on windows, but it may just be a case of making sure the required dllspec stuff is in the headers and that the dll file for tesseract's Base API is in the proper path.

I can't actively test in Windows unfortunetly, but I will keep this ticket open as a feature-request.

[debjan]

I downloaded compiled tesseract libs, provided on tesseract-ocr project page (link) and put those inside tesswrap base folder, which I cloned in "c:\src\git\tesswrap".

I then changed setup.py like this:

--- C:\src\Git\tesserwrap\setup.py.bak
+++ C:\src\Git\tesserwrap\setup.py
@@ -37,16 +37,16 @@
 def read(fname):
     return open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), fname)).read()

-extra_lib_paths = ['/usr/local/lib']
+extra_lib_paths = ['./lib']

-tesseract_possible_names = ['tesseract_api', 'tesseract']
+tesseract_possible_names = ['tesseract_api', 'tesseract', 'libtesseract302']
 tesseract_lib_name = find_closest_libname(
     tesseract_possible_names,
     extra_lib_paths)

 tesser_cpp = Extension(
     'libtesserwrap',
-    include_dirs=['/usr/local/include'],
+    include_dirs=['./include'],
     libraries=[tesseract_lib_name],
     library_dirs=extra_lib_paths,
     sources=[

By default, distutils compiles with MSVC if present, and this is the base line from my build log:

LINK : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol initlibtesserwrap

If I set distutils to use mingw32, I get this build log

Any pointers for c++ illiterate?

TIA

[maupaso]

Is there any news about this lib in windows?

[debjan]

@maupaso I managed to build this: https://github.com/virtuald/python-tesseract-sip