[sword-devel] Microsoft SDK provides free non-gui C++ compiler and nmake: has anyone tried to build BibleCS (Win32) with it?

[Chris Little]

You need BCB in order to build BibleCS.  We use VCL, which is not 
included with Borland C++ Complier 5.5 and definitely not with any MS 
products.

I don't think building with free tools has ever been a stated goal. 
Sure, it would be nice, but it's not practical for Win32 development, 
and it's really not that important, considering that most Win32 users 
would rather just have a binary and don't care at all what kind of 
source licensing is involved.

Lynn Allan wrote:

> Inquiring (newbie) minds want to know:
> * Has anyone tried to build BibleCS (Win32) with the free command-line
> Microsoft compiler that comes with their SDK?
> 
> This may have been discussed ad-nauseum in the past, so, por favor, have
> grace on this newbie. In the list archive, I did track down an extended
> thread about the Borland compiler earlier this year, but didn't see the
> Microsoft SDK compiler mentioned.
> 
> My impression is that the Sword project has an objective that the sources
> should be rebuildable with free tools. There are .bpr files for the Borland
> C++Builder x.x. My understanding is that there is a magical procedure to
> generate C++Builder 5.5 makefiles for command line compilation, but I've
> never figured that out, or come across documentation how to do that.
> 
> There are also .dsw and .dsp files for Microsoft VisualStudio-98 to rebuild
> diatheke (seems to work!) and ActiveDiatheke.ocx (which seems broken ...
> I've submitted fixes).

Fixes to ActiveDiatheke were committed about a week ago.  Let me know if 
you're still having problems.

> In any case, I was wondering if anyone has attempted to use the free
> command-line C++ compiler that comes with Microsoft's SDK? VisualStudio-98
> can generate makefiles that are compatible with nmake (VisualStudio-2003
> doesn't, as near as I can tell).
> 
> I was going to see what hurdles might be involved, but thought I'd see if
> this has been attempted and/or solved in the past.
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
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