[sword-devel] Windows Builds

[Greg Hellings]

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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