[sword-devel] sword configuration problem -- no transliteration

[Troy A. Griffitts]

Ah, thanks for tracking that down and fixed it, Greg!

On 4/5/25 8:29 AM, Greg Hellings wrote:
> The issue was a bit more arcane.
>
> Sword's configure.ac <http://configure.ac> unilaterally refuses to 
> even consider linking ICU if it cannot find icu-config, re-gardles of 
> options passed in. For the cross build ICU package in Fedora there is 
> no icu-config file. So I had to patch configure.ac 
> <http://configure.ac> to check for the ICU packages with pkg-config if 
> icu-config cannot be found, rather than blindly refuse to include ICU.
>
> So the issue was that we were building the library without ICU support 
> but thought we were building it with, because of the configure options 
> we used.
>
> --Greg
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025, 10:13 AM Troy A. Griffitts <scribe at crosswire.org> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi Karl,
>
>     I wonder if an ICU data dll is not present on the path. Just a
>     first thought.
>
>
>     On 4/1/25 10:40 AM, Karl Kleinpaste wrote:
>>     We have a Xiphos bug saying that the new release does not support
>>     transliteration in the Windows build. It works fine in Linux.
>>
>>     Xiphos itself knows next to nothing about transliteration, just
>>     the option on the module context menu which provides for turning
>>     the feature on/off. There is nothing deeper in Xiphos that knows
>>     or cares, it just tells the engine what's wanted, and depends on
>>     the engine to render text accordingly.
>>
>>     So the problem seems to be that it isn't enabled in how Sword is
>>     built for Xiphos. And a couple of us looking at this are fairly
>>     mystified.
>>
>>     It seems to be the case that this is driven by #define of
>>     "_ICU_", based on its use in src/mgr/swmgr.cpp lines 300 and
>>     1200. But the Windows build provides for ICU (config summary
>>     shows it having been found) so we see no reason why this would be
>>     a question.
>>
>>     Am I misssing the mark? Is transliteration enabled by some other
>>     configurable aspect?
>>
>>     Transliteration worked in Windows build of Xiphos 4.2.1 (I
>>     checked), so I got tag "sword-1-8-1" in order to diff swmgr.cpp
>>     versus today's 1.9. Nothing of consequence; "ICU" does not appear
>>     in the diff at all.
>>
>>     We could really use a pointer as to what we are missing.
>>     Thoughts, theories, clues, and wild ass guesses are all welcome.
>>
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