[sword-devel] Where is current cipherraw.exe for Windows?

[Greg Hellings]

Looking back through this - did you ever try mod2zmod? cipherraw, as
explained above in the thread, has been absent from SWORD for a long time.
Encrypted modules are only supported in compressed forms.

--Greg

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 6:16 PM John Dudeck <john.dudeck at sim.org> wrote:

>
> I'm not sure why this message is showing up now. I posted it on 26 march
> 2019. The question still stands, as I have never gotten a response about
> how to make encrypted Genbooks.
>
> As to why I need the tools for Windows, I work with a very small group
> that is preparing a set of Bible study materials in Sword to run on
> AndBible, targeted to French-speaking African pastors. The materials are
> mostly copyrighted, and we are using the encryption feature of Sword to
> exert a bit of barrier against mass piracy outside of Africa. Our team uses
> Windows 10 workstations, and just want to create good working Sword modules.
>
> With the advent of WSL2, I can conceivably see creating scripts that would
> run the Sword tools in the Linux subsystem. I would appreciate it if
> somebody could point me to a tutorial for installing and using Sword under
> WSL2.
>
> Even more valuable would be if somebody could show me how to build Windows
> executables of the tools from within WSL2, which would eliminate the need
> for my coworkers to deal with installing WSL2 on their workstations.
>
> Thanks.
>
> John
>
> > Am 01.12.20 um 17:39 schrieb Greg Hellings:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 11:08 AM John Dudeck <jdudeck at laclef.org
> > > <mailto:jdudeck at laclef.org>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     __
> > >     Greetings.
> > >
> > >     I am looking into how to use the encryption feature for Sword
> > >     modules. I have done it successfully using the -c command line
> > >     switch on osis2mod for Bibles, commentaries, and dictionaries.
> > >
> > >     But I also need to do encryption for Genbooks. Reading the
> > Crosswire
> > >     wiki, it mentions the cipherraw tool.
> > >
> > >     We do our module developement on Windows. I am using the other
> > >     various utilities bundled with Xiphos 64-bit, but cipherraw.exe is
> > >     missing.
> > >
> > >
> > > This is officially unsupported. Only Linux is officially supported for
> > > module development.
> > >
> > > Of course, with the world being what it is, one of the easiest places
> > > for you to test things out would be in Windows using the WSL2 support.
> > > You should be able to get copies of the module utilities by tapping a
> > > sword (or sword-utils on Fedora) package for any of the distros you
> > > install in WSL2.
> > >
> > >
> > >     I have the 1.7.0 / 1.8.0 32-bit version from CrossWire. Is this the
> > >     latest current version?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm unaware of any official builds from CrossWire. Where did you get
> > it?
> > >
> >
> > I guess version 1.7.0 came from
> > http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/utils/win32/
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