[sword-devel] C# Binding Example - success

[Jon Behrens]

Praise God - after a week of fooling with this, I have finally gotten 
the C# binding example to work. Here's how I did it.

Starting with a clean Linux Mint 17 install (Ubuntu derivative), install 
the following software (Thanks Troy for the list)

     subversion    //Probably only needed if you don't download the tar file
     automake
     libtool
     g++
     zlib1g-dev
     libicu-dev
     libcurl4-openssl-dev
     libclucene-dev

     monodevelop
     mono-complete

Go to http://crosswire.org/sword/develop/index.jsp and download and 
extract the files into a directory ~/sword-1.7.3 in this case.

Rename the directory from sword-1-7.3 to sword - this will prevent 
getting a library named sword-1.7.3.so. Not necessarily a problem, but 
you would have to change the name of the library that the examples are 
searching for.

Edit the file usrinst.sh. Near the top of the file is a line:

     OPTIONS="--disable-shared $OPTIONS"

Comment that line out - or remove it, I suppose. This will get the make 
to generate a shared library in addition to the static one.

Open the INSTALL file in a window so you can refer to it and follow the 
instructions.

If the examples in ~/sword/examples/cmdline work, you've got everything 
set up properly.

Now edit /etc/environment and add the line:

     LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib"

Assuming you've not changed the location of  libsword.so from the default.

     $ source /etc/environment

Now open monodevelop and open the project file in ~/sword/bindings/csharp

There are three projects in the solution. Expand Sword.tests and edit 
the References. Remove nunit.core and nunit.framework. In the Assembly 
tree, check nunit.core and nunit.framework. For some reason these 
packages in the as-shipped solution cause the compile to fail. Removing 
and replacing them fixes that problem.

Build the solution and run the LookupExample.