[sword-devel] Cheatah on Windows!

Daniel Blake sword-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 23:18:58 -0400


Would anybody please post the list of needed software to compile the Sword
project.

The instructions on how to compile Sword would be nice too

Like Don I haven't compiled much of anything to speak of but I would like to
learn.

Thanks
Daniel Blake


> Thanks to the Right Reverend Barry Drake, I successfully compiled Cheatah
> today using Dev-C++. The hardest part was figuring out WinCVS. lol They
have
> this big ole' fancy looking GUI for the thing, and to get it to work you
> have to dig around through all sorts of esoteric menus to get to a command
> line input. Why didn't they just start with that? Oh well.
>
> Once I got the CVS source tree on my local box, the rest was pretty much
> cake. I had to change the paths in the two *.dev files that Barry provided
> me with. Since I did not exactly know where all my stuff was and where it
> should be, it took me a little trial and error, but I was able to
> successfully compile the libswrod.a and then Cheatah. Not bad for a guy
who
> has not compiled anything much more than a command line "Hello World!"
app,
> and still doesn't understand the difference between a function and an
> object.
>
> Proof: http://elbourne.org/sword/win_cheatah.jpg
>
> by grace alone,
>
> Don A. Elbourne Jr.
> http://elbourne.org