[sword-devel] Installed on a Mac, OS X 10.9.2!

[Greg Hellings]

Congratulations on your success, but building for Mac has worked for a
very long time. Typically people will install the dependencies - like
ICU, CLucene, and libcurl - through a system like MacPorts or
Homebrew. I believe there is now also a Brew available for Sword
directly.

--Greg

On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Shane Cooke <shanecooke at mac.com> wrote:
> Reposting this as it seemed to not have gone live last time.
>
> On Apr 7, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Shane Cooke <shanecooke at mac.com> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone.
>
> Praise God, I have version 2893 of osis2mod installed and running on my late
> 2012 Retina Macbook Pro, 13”, OS X 10.9.2, 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM!
> I can now generate modules right from my own Mac.
>
> I had been using a Sword installation on my Ubuntu 12.04 on a VM.  It wasn’t
> convenient to hop back and forth, using the soon to be discontinued Ubuntu
> One cloud storage to sync my source file on my Mac to the VM Ubuntu.
>
> Well, I downloaded the source, and after the first run was notified I needed
> ICU. I decided to try to install ICU, despite previous apparent failures, by
> reading this blog:
> http://themidnightprogrammer.blogspot.ca/2010/09/unicode-with-icu.html and
> he seemed to have done it,  it made me think, why not me? Part of his post
> noted <unicode/unistr.h> which was an error that also appeared when I first
> tried to install the Sword 1.7.2 engine
> “../include/utf8transliterator.h:41:10: fatal error: 'unicode/unistr.h' file
> not found” and he solved it by installed the ICU library, something I had
> previously tried to do, but failed (for what reason, I can’t recall). I
> followed the steps at
> http://freddyduarte.com/2013/08/14/installing-the-icu-libraries-and-the-php-intl-extension-on-a-mac/,
> and what do you know, ICU installed. I ran the sword installation again and
> voila, it installed. With some trepidation I then tried using osis2mod on my
> XML files, but it didn’t work (I was still seeing a strange paragraph number
> misplacement).
>
> Then I realized that my osis2mod was still symlinked to the utilities in the
> the Eloquent app folders! So I looked to see where the new Sword utilities
> were installed and it was /us/bin/osis2mod.
>
> So, in case anyone has previously tried to use the latest Sword engine 1.7.2
> utilities on their Mac and it didn’t install or work, give it another try.
> They are now! There must be something in the OS X 10.9.2 update which
> changed something for the better-I had previously tried installed while on
> 10.8.x, and the first 10.9 update)
>
> Shane
>
>
>
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