Hey Troy, wow, thanks for the detailed description!!
I pasted it to http://www.crosswire.org/ucgi-bin/twiki/view/Swordwin/GettingStarted for future reference, for all the interested Windows developers to come. In case it needs to be updated, please change / correct it there. Martin Am Sonntag, 13. Juli 2003 00:19 schrieb Troy A. Griffitts: > Hello all you Windows would-be developers, we have really good news. > > Borland has been in the habbit of releasing different levels of their > tools at different price tiers, and sometimes they have a 'Personal' or > 'Open' edition which is free for personal use or opensource development. > Now, I'd personally recommend buying their tools. I use them for all > of my commercial development and they are second to none-- truely built > with the developer in mind. > > We have just made sure that BibleCS (Windows version of SWORD) builds > with Borland's Personal edition of their compiler. Thanks to David > Trotz, Jr. and Daniel Glassey for the work in the past on the Version 6 > Project files. I have personally confirmed they now work correctly with > the compiler from a clean checkout of sword. > > So, we're seeking Windows developers; no excuses now! > > Here are the steps to freely compile our free software freely :) > > Download and install Borland's compiler at: > > http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/1,6566,030,00.html?fsrParam=2-3-/main/1,656 >6,030,00.html&fileID=2879 > > You'll have to get a Nokia developer username/password for this first step > > Download and Install WinCVS: > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cvsgui/WinCvs13b13.zip?download > > > Follow the WinCVS instructions to checkout the source code: > > http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/cvs.jsp > > FOR WINDOWS DEVELOPMENT, YOU'LL NEED TO CHECKOUT 2 CVS MODULES: 'sword' > and 'icu-sword' (the instructions just say to checkout 'sword') Both > modules should be checked out to the same location, so you should end up > with both sword and icu-sword directories in that folder. > > Download the ICU DLL > > ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32/swicu20.dll > > and place it in the CVS tree at: > > sword/apps/windoze/CBuilder6/BibleCS/stage > > Then change to the folder: > > sword/apps/windoze/CBuilder6/BibleCS/ > > and double-click on: > > swordprj.bpg > > From the Borland IDE menu, choose Projects|Build All Projects > > And that's it!!! > > > One recommendation: create a directory, \etc at the root of the drive > where you checked out the sword source and place a file sword.conf > containing something like: > > [Install] > DataPath=d:/Program Files/CrossWire/The SWORD Project/ > > > This will let the sword.exe running from the Borland IDE find your SWORD > modules (Bibles, etc.) > > Have fun! > > -Troy. > > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
