[sword-devel] Compiling SWORD API using MinGW

[Chris Little]

DM Smith wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Chris Little wrote:
>>> Ultimately, I'm hoping (fingers crossed) to get GnomeSword (maybe  
>>> even
>>> BibleTime?) building on/for Win32 in a way that it can be distributed
>>> binary-only in a minimal way (that is, without a huge Cygwin  
>>> install).
>>>
>>> --Chris
>> It would be good if you succeeded but I wonder if that is possible. GS
>> depends on Gnome libraries and BT depends on KDE libraries. At least  
>> BT
>> can not be linked statically. You have to distribute the KDE libraries
>> with BT, and I don't know if KDE has ever worked with Windows/ 
>> Cygwin. I
>> guess BT and GS both need the basic Cygwin installation anyways.
> 
> Karl has built GnomeSword under Cygwin to run on Windows.
> 
> I think clucene was the only outstanding matter.
> 
> The following gives the threads on the matter:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=site:crosswire.org+sword-devel+GnomeSword+cygwin

GTK apps on Windows are fairly common and I suspect it should be 
possible to build most of them under MinGW. (Gimp & Gaim are the top two 
  that come to mind.) GNOME & GTKHTML are also ported to compile under 
MinGW. How easy it will be to build an unported app like GnomeSword I 
don't know. I also don't know how large the binaries (with all those 
dependencies) will ultimately be.

BT is certainly far less likely to build in Windows using MinGW. I 
haven't searched much, since I think GS will be a path of far less 
resistence, but I don't believe KDE has even been ported to compile 
under MinGW. (As with GS, I'm really not interested in Cygwin builds, so 
Cygwin/KDE isn't something I'm interested in.)

--Chris