Monday, July 30, 2007

More on CUPS

I managed to compile the cups 1.1.23 source tree, but no drivers yet and it gives a Missing library error on startup. Probably I need to compile the rest of the cups tree as it contains the drivers and a database driven system for intergrating the drivers, called Foomatic.

To build Foomatic, I need the unix utility called File. I downloaded it and started porting that too. The newest version however did not compile due to the usage of mmap. So I downloaded an older version and it compiled after tampering a little with its code.

Tomorrow I will look into compiling the rest of the tree. But first I need to read a bit more on the architecture of CUPS.

3 comments:

Andrea said...
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Andrea said...

ops :) i cancelled the post

Why don't create the new project on osdrawer.net?

The community could help you

Andrea

Βασίλειος Περαντζάκης said...

I plan to. Right now I am doing a quick and dirty port. Once I know it is possible to complete it (or not) I will put the clean code with my changes on osdrawer.net.