Barry,<br>
<br>
I have had decent success with building under gcc/mingw/msys. I have
not had, though, success with building other libraries with MinGW tools
- that's where the problems arose. Said other libraries build
flawlessly with VC++ tools, but then Sword does not build. So I
was stuck - with VC I could build 2 of 3 required libraries, but the
third one, Sword, could not be compiled. So now I'm back to
making the other two work with MinGW/MSYS, which I am close to
completing. However, if there were a way to compile the Sword
library under Windows using native Windows compilers (which many people
claim produce faster, leaner, better code than GCC), then it would be
easier to build native apps that tied in with Sword. Perhaps this
functionality already exists and I'm just missing it?<br>
<br>
--Greg<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry Drake</b> <<a href="mailto:b.drake@ntlworld.com">b.drake@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi Greg ............<br><br>Greg Hellings wrote:<br><br>> I am trying to build the sword library using the free tools from<br>> Microsoft (free?! you ask - sure enough, the free VC++ toolkit). I am<br>> curious as to whether anyone else has prior experience at this task,
<br>> and if so, if they have any guiding words of wisdom.<br><br>I've built the library and most of the commandline tools OK under mingw.<br>IMO you're better using mingw (msys) than VC for this. You need to have<br>
curl installed - the ftp library that is built in to Sword won't make<br>under mingw. Also, you need libz.lib (the zlib compression stuff).<br>Other than that, there is a bit of tinkering needed with one of the<br>makefiles after you've run the configure shells. ./configure isn't the
<br>one you want. Try ./autogen.sh followed by ./usrinst.sh and then do make.<br><br>God bless,<br>Barry<br><br>-- From Barry Drake (The Revd) minister of the Netherfield United Reformed church, Nottingham see <a href="http://www.jesusinnetherfield.org.uk">
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