[sword-devel] Windows Utils build - SVN version

[Greg Hellings]

For those of you who like and want the latest Windows utilities, I have
finally gotten the SVN version of them built, like I referenced a few weeks
ago. I've moved from building them with Docker and Github to building them
with Nix on my local Gitlab instance. If you are unfamiliar with Nix, it is
a far superior tool for this type of use case, as it is specifically made
to provide reproducible builds of outputs. Docker, while capable of being
shoe-horned into that behavior was not designed with that in mind. The code
lives here: https://src.thehellings.com/greg/mingw-sword-build

Binary downloads are available as releases from that Git repository.
Alternatively if you are a user of Nix or NixOS, you can do the build
yourself out of that repository.

I don't know if there have been any updates to SWORD code since the last
time I had posted SVN builds a few years back, but this does include the
very latest versions of curl, ICU, and other dependent libraries. It is
also built with Troy's autotools scripts rather than my slightly inadequate
CMake scripts. My CMake target was never able to pass 100% of the Unicode
tests for some reason, so this build should be superior in that regard,
also.

Please test and give me any feedback if you find problems with them. As a
very infrequent Windows user I don't really have a good test bed for this.

--Greg
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