[sword-devel] C# Binding Example - success

[Jon Behrens]

Hi Daniel
Here's my project directory.
Also, is anyone that you know of actively developing a Sword front end 
in C#?
Best
Jon

On 09/02/2014 06:55 PM, Daniel Hughes wrote:
> Can you please send me your updated project files (with the nunit
> references changed). So I can diff them with mine.
>
> The root of this issue is that monodevelop bundles nunit but there is
> also separate nunit debian packages. Monodevelop doesn't handle this
> conflict well.
>
> MonoDevelop on linux creates package hints in the project files which
> may be causing the problem. Not 100% sure though so need you updated
> project files.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel Hugehs
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jon Behrens <jbb at crimsonthread.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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