[sword-devel] wxSword Client

[Daniel Glassey]

On 01/05/06, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fellow developers,
>
> I wrote into the list late last summer about starting a simplistic
> wxWidgets-based sword client.  I started that project last summer and worked
> diligently through the summer months and got the client working basically
> under Linux.  However I kept running into problems getting the front-end to
> compile under Windows.  Now, however, I can claim that the wxSword client
> can now compile under Linux as well as Windows in SVN.  The windows
> front-end only has basic HTML support, since integrating wxWidgets and
> Mozilla was quite cumbersome.  I'll be packing up a new source tarball and
> probably the Windows executable within the next day or two to put up on
> Sourceforge.  The executable integrates with a currently installed SWORD
> Project under either Linux or Windows with only the definition of the
> SWORD_PATH environment variable.

Hi Greg :)
Great news.

> It would, though, be nice if
> post-sword1.5.7a would compile under Cygwin/MinGW on Windows.

I haven't looked but is there a bug report somewhere. Er, if someone
has time they might try cross-compiling with mingw on linux if they
don't have windows.

Regards,
Daniel