[sword-devel] Sword and MSVC++

[Michael Turner]

I'm new to the sword project and to C++ projects of this size, but I 
have VC++ 6. So I pulled the CVS tree, opened the 
\apps\windoze\vc\swordlib\swordlib.dsw and tried to build, but got 
numerous errors.  There were 162, so I won't go into all of them, but I 
think I might have narrowed it down to a template bug in VC 6.0. 
 Unfortunately I know next to nothing about templates, but it appears 
they are being used.  The error I think is the main culprit is "error 
C2653: 'HebrewMCIM' : is not a class or namespace name".  The following 
page has more information if anyone is curious 
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q214619).

If these are known issues I'm sorry for the redundancy and would love to 
be pointed to documentation for the workaround.  Otherwise I'm willing 
to work through these if someone has suggestions about what might be needed.

I also have a couple of general question about the project.  How would I 
go about building/modifying the actual interface myself?  It doesn't 
appear to be part of the CVS tree.  Are there general project documents 
for the windows interface such as planned features?

Thanks in advance,
Michael Turner



Joel Mawhorter wrote:

>Is VC++ 5 known to work with Sword? What sorts of problems are you having? I 
>would prefer to test my stuff with VC++ 6 or 7 if possible but I can also try 
>with VC++ 5. Steve, have you been able to compiler just the Sword library 
>with VC++?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joel
>
>On October 29, 2002 05:00, Steve Tang wrote:
>  
>
>>I have VC++5 and am willing to help. But so far I build with Cygwin with
>>source code outa the box and never really dug into the source. I haven't
>>done it with VC5. I just started to try to use ActiveDiatheke with VC5 w/o
>>success.
>>
>>On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Joel Mawhorter wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 23:28:19 -0800
>>>From: Joel Mawhorter <joel-ml@mawhorter.org>
>>>Reply-To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
>>>To: sword-devel@crosswire.org
>>>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Sword and MSVC++
>>>
>>>On October 28, 2002 23:50, David Overcash wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>>Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>Is there anyone on the list that has built sword with MS Visual C++?
>>>>>I
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>need to
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>test some parser code I want included in sword against MSVC++ but I
>>>>>don't have that compiler. If anyone would be willing to help me out I
>>>>>would
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>greatly
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>appreciate it.
>>>>>
>>>>>Joel
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Under the latest CVS Checkout I believe under apps/windoze   somewhere
>>>>in there you can find a microsoft visual build of an interface... Not
>>>>sure if this helps or not
>>>>
>>>>-Dave Overcash
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>The problem is that I don't have MSVC++ to try it out with.
>>>
>>>Joel
>>>      
>>>
>>Steve Tang...
>>    
>>
>
>.
>
>  
>