[gccsdk] evince

[Peter Naulls]

Chris Gransden wrote:
> As there's not much happening on the PDF viewing front I thought I'd 
> have a go at building evince.
> 
> It builds OK but I get the following when run,
> 
> GLib: Cannot convert message: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 
> 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
> Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:

I suspect these are easy to resolve, however:

> I also get this running gnumeric. Is attempting to build and run stuff 
> like this a good idea at the moment or
> is a lot more work needed to get them running.

Both these require a proper RISC OS port of freetype/fontconfig/pango
etc.  If you wanted to look at those, it'd be appreciated, but it's a
non-trivial problem.  XPDF too, I think relies on fontconfig, but
less so, so might be a more tractable problem.