[sword-devel] Sword and MSVC++

[Michael Turner]

I was right about not knowing anything about templates.  The problem had 
to do with the NO_SWORD_NAMESPACE that was mentioned in another thread. 
 I'm still getting errors, but this took care of about 20 of them.

Mike


Michael Turner wrote:

> 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...
>>>   
>>
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