[jsword-devel] bibleDesktop build instructions

[DM Smith]

Reinhardt,
Welcome! We look forward to your contributions.

I have temporarily turned off the nsis build. You can update your copy  
and it should work now.

Here is the history of this "bug":
We want to fully automate a nightly build.
We build on Linux (i.e. the CrossWire server).
NSIS, the windows installer, can be built to run on Linux (perhaps  
Mac, but never tried it) as you noted below.
I got NSIS built for Linux, but did not document it. So, I'd have to  
figure it out again.
I comment out everything nsis in bibledesktop/build.xml to build on my  
Mac.

If anyone can figure out how to make nsis dependant upon the  
availability of makenis in the user's environment, that would be great.

Alternatively, one could create a shell script called makensis that  
does nothing and put it on ant's PATH so that it would call it and not  
fail the build.

In Him,
	DM



On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Reinhardt van Rooyen wrote:

> Hi All. I've been following this list for a while and enjoy using
> bibleDesktop, and have decided that I'd like to lend a hand in
> improving the code.
>
> However, I'm having trouble building the source....
>
> It seems ant is failing trying to find makensis
>
>> ... /build.xml:157: Command failed: 'makensis -V3 /jsword/ 
>> bibledesktop/target/installed/BibleDesktop.nsi'
>
> I'm building from mac os X 10.4.11 using eclipse 1.3, and it seems
> like a lot of work to install nsismake, scons (to make it) and gcc (to
> make scons, I don't have xcode installed).
>
> Can someone please point in the right direction in building the code,
> or some documentation detailing the prerequisites?
>
> Thanks. I look forward to getting stuck into this project.
>
> In Christ,
> Reinhardt van Rooyen
>
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