Be sure to read INSTALL for information on how to get the software built, configured, and running properly. ___________________________________________________________________ Get the latest source and info at: http://www.crosswire.org UNIX DEVELOPERS You can try a './configure' (or optionally './usrinst.sh' for a useful development options configuration), then 'make' from this directory. This should compile everthing needed. You may type './configure --help' to see a list of options. If all compiles fine, a 'make install' (as root, probably) will install libs to your system and you may begin using the library. There are a few basic tests (tests/), start of a test suite (tests/testsuite/), utilities (utilities/), and examples (examples/), in the tree. To install modules, have a look at utilities/installmgr For some basic lookup and search utilities, see examples/cmdline/search examples/cmdline/lookup utilities/diatheke/ If you are an end user looking for a nice SWORD, graphical Bible study software suite, then you'll probably want to download one of the many nice frontends found at http://crosswire.org/applications.jsp ./buildtest.cpp compiles to the executable 'buildtest' as a test to see if the libs have compiled and can be linked against successfully. This is NOT the final target of the build, nor does anything useful. :) CMAKE Alternatively, you can try building with CMake. CMake is an alternative make system for muliple platforms. You might have a great experience using the CMake build system. See: cmake/README for more information LANGUAGE BINDINGS Other language bindings can be found in the ./bindings directory: flatapi.cpp is a useful extern "C" interface for making bindings easier. Kylix bindings (and maybe Delphi bindings) may be found in sword/bindings/clx CORBA (orbit-c++) bindings with Java example classes in /bindings/corba Perl stuff in bindings/perl SWIG stuff (Python, Perl) in bindings/swig C++BUILDER DEVELOPERS You may find project files under lib/bcppmake VC DEVELOPERS You may find project files under lib/vcppmake DELPHI DEVELOPERS You will need to place sword32.dll in your winsys directory or elsewhere in your path. You can find source to build the dll using ./bindings/flatapi.cpp or a binary at: ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32/bcdlls.zip header file is include/SwordAPI.pas CLX components can be found under bindings/clx/ .NET DEVELOPERS Have a look in bindings/swig/vstudio/ Binaries may be found at: ftp://crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32/vcdlls.zip Enjoy! Please email any questions or comments to: sword-feedback@crosswire.org