On Apr 6, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Eeli Kaikkonen wrote: > On Sat, 5 Apr 2008, Chris Little wrote: >> Ultimately, I'm hoping (fingers crossed) to get GnomeSword (maybe >> even >> BibleTime?) building on/for Win32 in a way that it can be distributed >> binary-only in a minimal way (that is, without a huge Cygwin >> install). >> >> --Chris > > It would be good if you succeeded but I wonder if that is possible. GS > depends on Gnome libraries and BT depends on KDE libraries. At least > BT > can not be linked statically. You have to distribute the KDE libraries > with BT, and I don't know if KDE has ever worked with Windows/ > Cygwin. I > guess BT and GS both need the basic Cygwin installation anyways.
Karl has built GnomeSword under Cygwin to run on Windows. I think clucene was the only outstanding matter. The following gives the threads on the matter: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:crosswire.org+sword-devel+GnomeSword+cygwin > > > With BT the future is different, we are aiming at Qt-only dependency > and > native binaries for Linux, Mac and Windows. I wouldn't put much > foreign > platform effort in KDE-based BT right now. The future KDE 4.1 should > work under Windows without Cygwin, so it could be possible to > compile BT > "natively" under Windows even before we get rid of the KDE dependency. > > My personal feeling/estimation is that the Qt-only BT release > happens at > the end of this year. Of course it depends on the time which the > developers (ATM I and Martin) can put into it. I hope my estimation is > too pessimistic. I am looking forward to this! Thanks for the prayer request! In Him, DM _______________________________________________ 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
