[sword-devel] compiling on Windows

[Dan Blake]

Matthew Talbert wrote:
>> I am not a programmer ( I'm a wanna be) but have access to MS Visual Studio
>> 6, 2005 & 2008, so options 1 and 3 would be the most beneficial for me.  I
>> think having all of these options documented on the wiki as David Haslam has
>> suggested would be valuable.
>>     
>
> Feel free to put this on the wiki :)
>
> 3 is not possible with MS Visual Studio. I don't even know what it
> involves except a Borland Compiler.
>
> For 1, follow these steps:
>
> 1. Download http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.6/sword-1.6.0.tar.gz
> 2. Unpack it somewhere with something like 7zip
> 3. With Visual Studio 2008, open sword-1.6.0/lib/vcppmake/vc8/libsword.proj
> 4. Compile.
> 5. Open sword-1.6.0/utilities/vcppmake/utilities.sln
> 6. Compile.
>
> I do not know much about compiling with ICU and/or clucene with Visual
> Studio. Someone else will have to provide that part of the
> instructions.
>
> Matthew

Thanks Matthew,

It's been posted.  I'll keep updating the wiki as directions get posted.

P.S.  I knew option 3 couldn't be done with proprietary tools :-)

Daniel Blake