[sword-devel] Sword Library on Windows Without Requiring Cygwin

[Greg Hellings]

It's all in how the gcc linker for cygwin works.  Just pass it the
option -mnocygwin (or something similar, like -mno-cygwin) and it
won't require the cygwin.dll anymore.  If that's not exact, just
search online for it or through the man pages.  I did the same thing
for a while.

--Greg

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:59 PM, Jeremy Erickson
<jerickson314 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>        For BibleMemorizer, I am attempting to create Windows binaries.  I would like
> to have a working Windows binary of Sword.  However, the only build I was
> successful in creating was using Cygwin, in which case I get undefined
> reference errors if I don't link with the Cygwin DLL.  I tried
> using --host=i686-pc-mingw32, but it didn't make a difference.  I also tried
> building against straight MinGW with MSYS, but for some reason almost
> everything I do in MSYS results in sh.exe segfaulting, which means something
> is wrong with my install, even though I followed the instructions on the
> MinGW site.
>        It might actually be easiest if someone has a pre-built .a library for Sword.
> Otherwise, is there something I'm missing in ./configure in order for it to
> build a non-Cygwin dependent binary?  Or are there better/easier instructions
> for setting up MSYS than http://www.mingw.org/wiki/msys ?  I found that
> process quite cumbersome, and the resulting setup simply doesn't work.  (I
> failed to compile autoconf with the same problems Sword gave me.)
>        I have never really compiled anything on Windows not using Visual Studio,
> unless I was using Cygwin and didn't care if it linked the DLL.  (The vast
> majority of my experience is on Linux, and the rest on Mac OS X which is
> similar.)  However, for distribution, I would prefer not to have to link it.
>        Also, where does the Windows version of Sword look for modules by default?
>
> -Jeremy Erickson
>
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