[sword-devel] Re: Fw: Thai web site and Diatheke

[Adrian Korten]

Goo day,

We are trying to get a web Diatheke set up for the Thai Bible Society. Sam
has had the following problem; could someone give him some advice or tell
him where some more details are located.

Adrian

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Sam Wanyoike <sam@biblesocieties.org> wrote:

> Hi Adrian,
>
> I'm having trouble compiling the .cpp's for diatheke and gives a cross
> reference error which says;
>
> /tmp/ccsgxf9H.o(.text+0x1ca): undefined reference to `stricmp(char
> const *, char const *)'
>
> Might you have a README at hand for installing/setting it up on
> Linux/Unix?? I'll also check some more at crosswire on Linux
> troubleshooting.
>
> ...regds, Sam
>
>> Good day Sam,
>> I was wondering why you did not reply and am happy to 'hear' your
>> voice again. (My guess had been you were on vacation but a move to a
>> new country is even more delaying to work goals.) Please do go ahead
>> and try to troubleshoot it - Bob and I are pretty sure that
>> Diatheke.exe needs to be compiled for Unix (or whatever machine it is
>> on). But this is all new to me so I should not try to sound like an
>> expert.
>>
>> I am working on a new HTML form and Perl script. It is working on my
>> Win98 machine running Apache and the Diatheke.exe for Windows. It
>> needs some more work but does display nicely in paragraphs etc. By the
>> way, do you know if I can specify a target frame from within the Perl
>> output code. At the moment, the Submit button's HTML code specifies a
>> second frame but within Perl, I'd like to be able to send some output
>> to a third frame.
>>
>> ak
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sam Wanyoike" <sam@biblesocieties.org>
>> To: "Adrian Korten" <adrian_korten@sil.org>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 6:42 AM
>> Subject: Re: Fw: Thai web site and Diatheke
>>
>>
>>> So sorry Adrian for the delay, but now I want to look and follow up
>>> on this issue.
>>>
>>> Can I go ahead and try to troubleshoot?
>>>
>>> I was doing a major re-llocation, but now I'm settled in well here
>>> in Canada & hopefull should be able to give you much better support.
>>>
>>> Sorry once again for the inconvinience...
>>>
>>> Kind regards, Sam
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Good day Sam,
>>>> Have you had a chance yet to compile the Diatheke program? Or is
>>>> someone else looking into this? I've got some demos that I'd like
>>>> to show to the leaders at TBS; hopefully, next week some time.
>>>>
>>>> ak
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Adrian Korten" <adrian_korten@sil.org>
>>>> To: "Sam Wanyoike" <sam@biblesocieties.org>
>>>> Cc: "Bob Batzinger" <bob@bible.org.sg>
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:11 PM
>>>> Subject: Thai web site and Diatheke
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Good day Sam,
>>>>>
>>>>> Bob has helped me to get quite a few problems fixed. To start
>>>>> with, we worked on getting it a server and the CGI working on my
>>>>> Win98 machinge. We were able to install Apache v1.? instead of
>>>>> Apache 2.0?. After getting the .conf file adjusted, the server
>>>>> could run Perl scripts and specifically
>>>> the
>>>>> Diatheke scripts. Then we were able to get the connection to the
>>>>> Diatheke.exe and from there the link to the Sword text
>>>>> databases. Next,
>>>> Bob
>>>>> had to show me how to clean up some Perl commands that only
>>>>> worked on
>>>> Unix.
>>>>> Final result: the selected texts were displayed. That was
>>>>> yesterday.
>>>>>
>>>>> Today, with the previous knowledge, we tried to get it working
>>>>> on the
>>>> actual
>>>>> web-site. After various attempts and breaking it down to the
>>>>> simplest components, we realized a major problem. The file that
>>>>> I uploaded is the same .exe that I am using on my Win98 system.
>>>>> It most likely needs to be compiled for Unix. We tried to do
>>>>> that but don't have authorized telnet access and it didn't work
>>>>> through a CGI script. So, could you compile the C++ code for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> The files are in '/sword152/apps/console/diatheke/'. There is a
>>>>> Makefile
>>>> in
>>>>> that directory along with two relevant .cpp files. There is a
>>>>> readme file but it is related to setting up the Win .exe. The
>>>>> Makefile references a Makefile.cfg in the '/sword152/'
>>>>> directory. You may have to make some adjustments to this file to
>>>>> make it compile, ie. C++ compiler. Also
>>>> uploaded
>>>>> is the '/sword152/include/' directory and files. If this stuff
>>>>> does not compile with the above, I can send you the
>>>>> 'sword152.zip' which contains many other things. Or you can
>>>>> download it from the Crosswire Sword site. There is a Sword
>>>>> v1.5.3 release but I have heard that the version of the Diatheke
>>>>> is buggy.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd appreciate it much if you could do this for me and TBS
>>>>> because I am unable to do it myself.
>>>>>
>>>>> ak
>>>>>
>>>>>
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