[sword-devel] SWORD 1.9.0RC3 Available

[ZdPo Ster]

Please see the attached patch that solves the problem with warnings.

I am wondering why there is a need to hardcode installation paths as they
usually are not only OS dependent but also architecture dependent . And
cmake on windows handle them correctly by default...

On Sun, 4 Oct 2020 at 03:54, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sword doesn't really support building on Windows other than with the
> Borland C++ files that Troy maintains. CMake can easily be used to
> cross-compile from Linux.
>
> If you would like to provide fixes to it so that it also builds directly
> from Windows with CMake, you're welcome to send those to the list or to me
> directly.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 4:09 AM ZdPo Ster <zdposter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> cmake 3.18.2 (on windows)  reports:
>>
>> CMake Warning (dev) at cmake/options.cmake:21 (set):
>>   Syntax error in cmake code at
>>
>>     F:/Project-Personal/clang_shared/sword-1.9.0RC3/cmake/options.cmake:21
>>
>>   when parsing string
>>
>>     Directory into which to install architecture-dependent files.
>> Defaults to C:\Program Files (x86)\libsword\.
>>
>>   Invalid escape sequence \P
>>
>>   Policy CMP0010 is not set: Bad variable reference syntax is an error.
>> Run
>>   "cmake --help-policy CMP0010" for policy details.  Use the cmake_policy
>>   command to set the policy and suppress this warning.
>> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>   cmake/options.cmake:35 (_SET_FANCY)
>>   CMakeLists.txt:31 (INCLUDE)
>> This warning is for project developers.
>>
>> cmake & VS build is ok.
>> But when I tried to build sword with cmake and clang (which is able to
>> create libraries compatible with VS or gcc) via ninja I got error message:
>>
>> failed with:
>>    ninja: error: build.ninja:2837: multiple rules generate sword.lib
>>
>> IMO these are not showstoppers, but it would be nice to solve them in the
>> final release...
>>
>> Zdenko
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 22:00, Karl Kleinpaste <karl at kleinpaste.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/2/20 9:42 AM, Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
>>>
>>> Please give it a try and let me know if you have any issues
>>>
>>> No issue building, and building Xiphos with it.
>>>
>>> But important question: Does this release take care of the UTF-16
>>> problem? I know that was being discussed some months back. That is, will we
>>> be able to dispose of the decade-old patch for Win32 Sword that keeps
>>> Xiphos sane in the face of NTFS and đíàçŕïẗ́iċąłṡ?
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