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This is the collaboration/planning area for the Windows frontend of SWORD.
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'''BibleCS''' Windows-based feature rich Desktop frontend
  
For now, the content consists of stuff from an old wiki with broken formatting. Could someone sort it through and repair the formatting?
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Project Website: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs/
  
= Getting Started =
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Developers' Site http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/svn.jsp
  
 
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[[Category:SWORD Frontends|BibleCS]]
== Compiling with Borland tools: ==
 
Borland has been in the habit of releasing different levels of their
 
tools at different price tiers, and sometimes they have an '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-- truly built
 
with the developer in mind.
 
 
 
Here are the steps to freely compile the free software freely :)
 
 
 
Download and install Borland's Turbo C++ compiler at:
 
http://turboexplorer.com/
 
 
 
There are different "editions" of Borland Turbo Explorer. Make sure you download the Turbo C++ edition, as you can only install one on your computer.
 
 
 
Download and Install Tortoise SVN:
 
 
 
http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads
 
 
 
Follow the WinCVS instructions to checkout the source code:
 
 
 
http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/svn.jsp
 
 
 
For Windows development, you will need to checkout 3 SVN modules: 'sword',
 
'biblecs', & 'icu-sword'. All three should be checked out to checked out to
 
the same location, so you should end up with sword, biblecs, and icu-sword
 
directories in that folder.
 
 
 
Download the ICU DLL from here (grab the latest icudt??l.zip file, icudt28l.zip as of April, 2005):
 
ftp://ftp.crosswire.org/pub/sword/utils/win32/
 
 
 
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]<br>
 
DataPath=d:/Program Files/CrossWire/The SWORD Project/
 
 
 
[also good to set SWORD_PATH ... lda]
 
 
 
 
 
This will let the sword.exe running from the Borland IDE find your SWORD
 
modules (Bibles, etc.)
 
 
 
Have fun!
 
 
 
  -Troy.
 
 
 
 
 
[taken from an email from Troy on sword-devel.]
 
-- Main.MartinGruner - 13 Jul 2003
 
 
 
-- Main.InVerseParaclete - 06 Dec 2003 <br />
 
Note that the Borland C++Builder 6.0 and C++BuilderX tools are not yet officially supported for development of BibleCS software. The project files and project group files are not necessarily kept up-to-date in SVN with the officially supported CBuilder 5.0 .bpr's and .bpg's.
 
 
 
If you are not an experienced C++Builder user, you will probably want to peruse the sword-devel list carefully, and strongly consider connecting with a _mentor_. There are some Getting.Started oriented projects, as well as the ./tests subdirectory.
 
 
 
Availability of CBuilder 5.0 is _sketchy_. It is not available from Borland anymore. For obtaining ethically, you may try e-Bay (sometimes available, usually about $50 opening bid). Another source is getting a book from your library or World.Cat, hoping the CD is still there, and taking advantage of the 30-day or 60-day trial.
 
 
 
-- Main.ChrisLittle - 11 Apr 2005
 
 
 
The CBuilder 6.0 personal is also available at polish borland representative site at address http://www.borland.pl/downloads/bcb6_personal/cbuilder_6_personal.exe Do not be afraid, it is not Polish version, just plain English :-) To get this version working You'll need a free personal license from Borland accessible at http://www.borland.com/products/downloads/download_cbuilder.html .<br>
 
Pleas also be informed that functionality of the personal edition is somewhat limited. The worst thing is that it lacks CodeGuard and Data Breakpoints which makes a memory problems debugging pretty hopeless.
 
 
 
-- Main.KrzysztofBialas - 16 Apr 2005
 
 
 
= Compiling with Cygwin =
 
 
 
;Cygwin
 
:The [[http://www.cygwin.com Cygwin]] provides the necessary layer ontop of the windows environment emulating API and services necessary to compile from source and run Unix software.
 
 
 
:;Install
 
::Cygwin should be installed using standard installer available on http://www.cygwin.com. I haven't had time to check which packages are needed for the SWORD build - so You'd probably be better off just installing everything (maybe except TeX and games ;-)). As of today the full install requires about
 
 
 
;SWORD
 
:Well, everyone knows what The SWORD is :-)
 
 
 
:;Getting sources
 
::The sources should be downloaded using SVN windows client (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org - quite a good choice). The detailed information is available at http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/svn.jsp Just a small information, You need only the 'sword' product.
 
 
 
:;Necessary changes in the source tree
 
::None necessary currently. :-)
 
 
 
:;Configure
 
::First one needs to get the configure script. To get it You should run the =autogen.sh= from the main SWORD directory. Then, the configure script should be invoked 'configure --enable-shared --with-curl --without-clucene'. This command will generate the necessary Makefiles
 
 
 
:;Compilation
 
::This is an easy part. Just type =make=, and everything will be compiled (except from the tests)
 
 
 
:;Installation
 
::"make install"
 
 
 
;Final remark
 
:I've not tested the build with the tests, alhou the tests itself bilds correctly (to do this You need to manually switch to the =tests= directory and write =make= .
 
:I've tested the [[osis2mod]] utility, and one 'funny' thing - osis2mod compiled in cygwin environment runs 10 times slower than osis2mod compiled in BCPB 6 (!). Perhaps some optimization flags need to be tweaked, but the speed difference is really enormous...
 
 
 
-- Main.KrzysztofBialas - 02 May 2005
 
 
 
 
 
[[Category:SWORD Frontends]]
 

Latest revision as of 08:47, 8 January 2018

BibleCS Windows-based feature rich Desktop frontend

Project Website: http://www.crosswire.org/sword/software/biblecs/

Developers' Site http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/svn.jsp