[sword-devel] Compiling sword-1.5.0

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Arghhhh.  Sorry, I haven't revisited the DLL issue.  I'm guessing the
old one I posted at:
	ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/attic
didn't help the situation?

	-Troy.



Chris Marsh wrote:
> 
> I'm still trying to get a Sword DLL for Windows.... let alone use it.
> 
> Chris Marsh
> 
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> Hansen Corporation
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Little [mailto:chrislit@chiasma.org]
> Sent: Friday, 28 July 2000 7:52
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: RE: [sword-devel] Compiling sword-1.5.0
> 
> Unfortunately, there is presently no solution for non-programmers to make
> modules, IMO.  You can use the GBF or other converters in the source tree
> if you can compile them--which generally requires you to be running
> linux.  (I figure if you're not a programmer, you don't have compilers
> lying around you Win32 machine.)
> 
> I'd like to work on a nice GUI module editor for Win32, if not
> cross-platform, but I'm probably going to have to wait until I can figure
> out how to use a sword.dll in VB or such.
> 
> I've also got some perl converters in the works, and those should work on
> Win32 for people who grab ActiveState's Perl for Win32.  But that won't
> look as nice (and be as appealing to use for the average user) as a GUI
> editor--something I feel is lacking from ALL of the Bible software I've
> seen on the market.
> 
> --Chris Little
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, Dan Bertles wrote:
> 
> > Chris, etc.,
> >
> > I have been mostly lurking for some time and have seen this question quite
> > often also.  I've also been looking, with baited breath, for an answer
> that
> > I could understand for the same period of time  ;  )
> >
> > I am operating in "Windoze" 95/NT and am not a programmer, but am more of
> a
> > hacker.  I have edited modules using replace utilities, etc. and some
> funky
> > other stuff to remove the CR-LF characters, but I still don't have a clue
> > how to *create* a module.
> >
> > Can a utility be created that will convert some form of delimited file
> into
> > a sword compatible format?
> >
> > Sorry to beat this issue to death, and I'm sorry I'm not at the caliber of
> > the rest of you to understand what has been presented in the past.
> >
> > Dan
> 
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