[sword-devel] RE: e-Sword

[Palumbo, William]

Are their any VC++ programmers out there?  I would like to set-up Sword to
run under VC++
Has anyone tried this recently (or at all) and can they give me some
specifics on what the errors are?

Regards,
William

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Little [mailto:chrislit@chiasma.org]
> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 11:42 PM
> To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> Subject: RE: [sword-devel] RE: e-Sword
> 
> 
> Rick Meyers (the e-Sword author) seems very receptive to the 
> idea of joining
> forces, and I've invited him to join the list.  I still don't 
> know how easy
> it will be for him to do much work with SWORD if he turns out 
> only to know
> VB.
> 
> Which brings me to a new question...
> 
> Does anyone have any idea how easy it might be to compile a 
> Windows lib/dll
> of SWORD?  Could cygwin perhaps compile SWORD OOTB?
> Troy, is SWORD still incompilable with VC++ because of 
> non-ANSI-compliance
> or might that have been fixed in VC++ 6.0?  If we could get a 
> SWORD dll (or
> lib), then I could churn out an ActiveX control and we could 
> let everyone
> with VB brew his own SWORD frontend.
> 
> --Chris Little
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > [mailto:owner-sword-devel@crosswire.org]On Behalf Of Chris Little
> > Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:21 PM
> > To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
> > Subject: RE: [sword-devel] RE: e-Sword
> >
> >
> > I'll ask, but am not too hopeful, if for no other reason than we
> > don't have
> > a VB interface to our library.  Worth a try anyway.
> >
> > --Chris Little
> >
> > Paul Gear wrote:
> >
> > > Why not ask if the author would like to join forces?  
> Maybe they could
> > > fill the role of the coordinator for the Windows frontend 
> and let Troy
> > > concentrate on the libraries like has wanted to for some time.
> >
>