Hi Barry...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Drake</b> <<a href="mailto:b.drake@ntlworld.com">b.drake@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Greg ...........<br><br>Greg Hellings wrote:<br>> The executable integrates with a currently installed SWORD Project<br>> under either Linux or Windows with only the definition of the<br>> SWORD_PATH environment variable. It would, though, be nice if
<br>> post-sword1.5.7a would compile under Cygwin/MinGW on Windows.<br>I've tried the Windows binary you put up on Sourceforge and I think it's going to have REAL potential. I wish I could promise to build a mingw binary - I want to, but it may be a while .... I need to get a new download of the library first and build that - is it meant to build with the current SVN? When you said you wish
1.5.7a and beyond would compile - are you saying that this version of WXSword links with an earlier library? I have compiled later SVN downloads under mingw, but had to alter the makefile to omit the ftp stuff (curl) as mingw doesn't have that easily available. It compiled OK last time I tried (June 2005 -
1.5.8) .... maybe I can link with the 1.5.8 library I already have ....</blockquote><div><br>Currently it is linked to the sword-1.5.7a library. I figured that sword could be built without the ftp/curl stuff, but I didn't feel like mucking around in the Makefile when I got around to building the sword library. It took so long to try and get the two other libraries working (wxWidgets and wxMozilla) that in the end, I just wanted to builld sword and have wxSword compile against whatever was the latest version that worked. I know that
1.5.7a works and 1.5.8 doesn't (out of the box). It seems like a good option to add to the configure script, I think. For 1.5.7a I had to pass in "--without-curl" for it compile. But that doesn't do the trick for
1.5.8. Maybe there could even be something as straightforward as "--disable-installmgr" or something like that?<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Troy ... could you think about a conditional 'omit' in the library config files for the stuff mingw can't handle? There is curl, and also I seem to remember something else - was it the ICU stuff - it's several months back and I forget. If I get around to building the latest SVN, I'll make a few notes and post them.
</blockquote><div><br>Notes on that would be most helpful and useful. Things are so close to working under Cygwin that I think a little tweaking would get them going, but in the mean-time allowing the library to build without it would be nice also.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I assume that you intend eventually to give support for footnotes etc. in due course? (and all the other things that are available). What I most like about it is the way that each window that opens is fully floating on the desktop so I can make the overall arrangement whatever suits the work I'm doing. This is the kind of thing Troy had in mind when he wrote the Sword2 prototype. Please feel encouraged! I'll put in what time I have as soon as I'm able. Thanks for all your hard work.
</blockquote><div><br>Yes, I definitely do plan to do most, maybe all, of what the sword library supports, as time allows. I have a few landmarks setup for myself for releases 0.2 through 0.4. Some of them include simpler things (like supplying a means of utilizing the various types of search that sword has) and others are a bit more ambitious for me, since I don't know the technology (like adding support for autotools so that it becomes much simpler to build from source for other people and isn't designed around my own machine specifically). By the time I reach
0.4 I hope that I will have all of the basic support for most of the sword functionality in the program in at least some capacity.<br><br>Thanks for the encouragement and also for assuring me that the program runs on someone else's computer!
<br><br>All the best,<br>Greg<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">God bless,<br>Barry<br><br>-- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed church, Nottingham see
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