[sword-devel] Windows Builds

Greg Hellings greg.hellings at gmail.com
Mon Feb 12 08:16:46 MST 2018


On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 9:10 AM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Greg,
>
> I refreshed http://dl.thehellings.com/sword-utils/
> in my browser, but the Zip files do not look more recent than 2018-01-30.
>
> Did you actually upload the updated Zip files?
>

I did, I just didn't regenerate the index file. Since I'm serving from S3,
the index files have to be statically generated. The file you download
should be the new version.

--Greg


>
> Best regards,
>
> David
>
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> -------- Original Message --------
> On 10 February 2018 7:40 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 3:41 PM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> From a command window in the Sword path, I just tried *utils64\diatheke
>> /?* and got the following message:
>>
>> [image: Screenshot 2018-01-30 21.33.04.png]
>>
>> FWIW, there is a DLL file with that name "libwinpthread-1.dll" installed
>> with Xiphos.
>>
>
> Sorry for the delay. I've added libwinpthread-1.dll and re-uploaded the
> Zip files. Can you give it another go?
>
> --Greg
>
>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> David
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>> -------- Original Message --------
>> On 30 January 2018 5:15 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 11:11 AM, David Haslam <dfhdfh at protonmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Greg,
>>>
>>> I just downloaded *sword-utils-1.8.1-x86_64-release.zip* and created a
>>> symbolic link under my *sword path* to the extracted folder.
>>>
>>> It may be a while before I chance to try any of the utilities.
>>>
>>
>> Could you at least try to invoke one of them, so we know if there are any
>> missing DLLs?
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Are there any notes on what's different between the *x32* and *x64*
>>> builds ?
>>>
>>
>> One is for x32 architectures the other for x64.
>>
>> --Greg
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> cf. My PC has Windows 7 x64.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> On 30 January 2018 2:52 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I have made a first pass at building the Windows version of the Sword
>>> utilities. You can find the resulting builds for 1.8.1 here:
>>> http://dl.thehellings.com/sword-utils/ as per usual.
>>>
>>> These are not officially supported or endorsed by CrossWire. I create
>>> them of my own volition and not in my capacity as the release manager here.
>>> They are simply zipped versions of the files I build from the Fedora MinGW
>>> packages.
>>>
>>> I haven't a Windows machine up and running today to test them out. These
>>> packages include the latest versions of all the files that were part of the
>>> 1.7.4 release bundle. However, since much time has passed since then, it
>>> would not surprise me if there are DLL files that have been added to the
>>> dependency tree since then. If you encounter issues with executing the
>>> files, please give me a holler and I'll see if there's an obvious solution.
>>>
>>> For those who are interested, and since I now automate everything I
>>> reasonably can manage to automate, you can see the scripts I use to build
>>> these files at https://github.com/greg-hellings/config. If you have
>>> Vagrant and Ansible installed on your local system, you can build the same
>>> results by opening the vagrant/mingw_sword_package folder from that
>>> repository and issuing the command "vagrant up". This should be do-able by
>>> anyone on any host. Doing so will bring up a guest Fedora 27 system,
>>> install the latest test version of the MinGW Sword package, package the
>>> results, and create a zip folder in the root of your current directory
>>> alongside the Vagrantfile.
>>>
>>> Please feel free to ask questions or chastise me if something is amiss.
>>>
>>> --Greg
>>>
>>>
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