Re: emacspeak on cygwin?

[John Wise <johnmwise@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:19:10AM -0700, John Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 07:54:23AM -0400, Morgan, J. MR  CLCRS/DFL wrote:
> > John Wise recently asked about compiling emacspeak on cygwin.  I'm
> > curious to know how you get emacspeak working under cygwin.  I have a
> > machine at home running xp and jaws .  I've installed cygwin and I use
> > it to do tasks that are apparently impossible under windows.  
> > Last night I downloaded and installed emacs-22.1. I checked out
> > emacspeak from svn.  I got through the make config and make steps with
> > no errors.
> > What steps do you take from here?
> > What speech server do you use under cygwin?
> > Assuming you get everything installed, then what?  Do you turn off your
> > screen reader and run "emacspeak -e" from a commandline?
> > Regards,
> > John
> > 
> > John J Morgan
> > Center For Languages, Cultures, and Regional studies
> > 745 Brewerton Road
> > West Point, New York, 10996
> > Phone: 845-938-5329
> > Email: john.morgan@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cell: 914-382-6925
> > Fax: 845-938-3585
> >
> 
> I use festival lite. Others on the list may be able to recommends something
> better but this has worked for me.
> 
> Go to 
> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/packed/flite-1.3/
> and download 
> flite-1.3-release.tar.gz
> 
> you won't need the exe but just follow the instructions in README under
> Compilation
> 
> you can then move the flite-1.3-release directory to /usr/src or note where
> it is.
> 
> Download
> eflite from 
> http://eflite.sourceforge.net/
> and follow the instructions in the INSTALL. Be sure to path to your flite in
> the configure, for me
> 
> ./configure flite_dir=/usr/src/flite-1.3-release
> 
> I could not get emacspeak to finish its make install, but I did get it to run
> using a shell script described in section 5.1 of the INSTALL for eflite
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> export EMACS_UNIBYTE=1
> export DTK_PROGRAM=/usr/local/bin/eflite
> emacs -q -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/lisp/emacspeak-setup.el
> # You may want to add "-l $HOME/.emacs" to the previous line
> 
> Hope I haven't been too pedantic, but hope that helps.
> 
> As a disclaimer, I am sighted, but I have glaucoma and an interest in
> accessible technologies. I'm also having problems gettting eflite to compile
> on a second machine, so someone on the list may want to recommend something
> else.
> 
> 
I suspect some changes in versions go to 
/usr/src/flite-1.3-release/build/i386-cygwin

cp -r lib /usr/src/flite-1.3-release/

go back to eflite build dir and run
./configure flite_dir=/usr/src/flite-1.3-release
and 
make
make test
make install

You might want to use cvs (smile) but this works, mostly, although emacspeak reports
the error

Theme /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/emacspeak/sounds/default-8k/ is missing its
configuration file.

I have to use the F10 menu f e to exit instead of C-x C-c although if I
run Cygwin/X and emacspeak in an X term C-x C-c will exit.

-- 
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-john
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