On 07/12/2006, at 14:57, Greg Hellings wrote: >>> >>> 1. Within the MacSword project (great to see interest in MacSword-- >>> it's a great project!) are there native tools that would handle >>> imp2mod or vpl2mod? Or do we all have to use the win32 tools? >> >> The tools should be able to be built on a Mac. You will need to >> obtain and install icu and lucene. Since Mac OSX is a version of Unix >> and has GNU's compilers, you can follow any of the discussions on >> this mailing list on how to build them. > > As of this past summer, DM's statement was tried and true. I was able > to build both the latest stable as well as the svn versions of sword > by just popping into a terminal window and running ./usrinst.sh with > make and make install (I tried it both with the .sh wrapper and the > ../configure directly - both worked fine). David: Great! I would like to build the latest stable version myself, but unfortunately I need some instructions. Could you point me to a place where I can learn what I need to learn to be able to build it myself? Thanks! > >> >>> >>> 2. Has anyone ever thought of putting together a disk image of a >>> basic *nix system that could be used with emulation (Q) on >>> different platforms (especially MacOS PPC) to build modules? This >>> disk would contain all of the necessary files to make sure all of >>> the win32 binaries run and do their thing. >> >> I don't know if this has come up before. The intention is that the >> Sword engine and utilities can be built on Mac. If someone were to >> build them as universal binaries, we'd be glad to host them.
> What do you mean here? When you are asking for a disk image, are you > talking some sort of iso to burn onto a CD that could be used to run a > whole emulated operating system? Basically a LiveCD that would come > equipped with all of the sword libraries pre-compiled? I believe > there are already projects out like that. I remember talk about > something named Ichthus or something along those lines. You might > want to look into that. If I can build the tools myself, then this is not necessary. The idea was to have a developers environment that comes completely prepared to make sword modules on a virtual machine. A person could download a disk image for his virtual machine and automatically have all the tools he needed installed there. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
