[sword-devel] free Windows compiler for SWORD

[Martin Gruner]

Hey Troy,

wow, thanks for the detailed description!!

I pasted it to 
http://www.crosswire.org/ucgi-bin/twiki/view/Swordwin/GettingStarted for 
future reference, for all the interested Windows developers to come.

In case it needs to be updated, please change / correct it there.

Martin

Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2003 00:19 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts:
> Hello all you Windows would-be developers, we have really good news.
>
> Borland has been in the habbit of releasing different levels of their
> tools at different price tiers, and sometimes they have a 'Personal' or
> 'Open' edition which is free for personal use or opensource development.
>   Now, I'd personally recommend buying their tools.  I use them for all
> of my commercial development and they are second to none-- truely built
> with the developer in mind.
>
> We have just made sure that BibleCS (Windows version of SWORD) builds
> with Borland's Personal edition of their compiler.  Thanks to David
> Trotz, Jr. and Daniel Glassey for the work in the past on the Version 6
> Project files.  I have personally confirmed they now work correctly with
> the compiler from a clean checkout of sword.
>
> So, we're seeking Windows developers; no excuses now!
>
> Here are the steps to freely compile our free software freely :)
>
> Download and install Borland's compiler at:
>
> http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6566,030,00.html?fsrParam=2-3-/main/1,656
>6,030,00.html&fileID=2879
>
> You'll have to get a Nokia developer username/password for this first step
>
> Download and Install WinCVS:
>
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cvsgui/WinCvs13b13.zip?download
>
>
> Follow the WinCVS instructions to checkout the source code:
>
> http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/cvs.jsp
>
> FOR WINDOWS DEVELOPMENT, YOU'LL NEED TO CHECKOUT 2 CVS MODULES: 'sword'
> and 'icu-sword' (the instructions just say to checkout 'sword')  Both
> modules should be checked out to the same location, so you should end up
> with both sword and icu-sword directories in that folder.
>
> Download the ICU DLL
>
> ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32/swicu20.dll
>
> and place it in the CVS tree at:
>
> sword/apps/windoze/CBuilder6/BibleCS/stage
>
> Then change to the folder:
>
> sword/apps/windoze/CBuilder6/BibleCS/
>
> and double-click on:
>
> swordprj.bpg
>
>  From the Borland IDE menu, choose Projects|Build All Projects
>
> And that's it!!!
>
>
> One recommendation: create a directory, \etc  at the root of the drive
> where you checked out the sword source and place a file sword.conf
> containing something like:
>
> [Install]
> DataPath=d:/Program Files/CrossWire/The SWORD Project/
>
>
> This will let the sword.exe running from the Borland IDE find your SWORD
> modules (Bibles, etc.)
>
> Have fun!
>
> 	-Troy.
>
>
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