Difference between revisions of "Tutorial:Compiling & Installing SWORD on Windows"

Revision as of 19:30, 30 September 2011

For compiling on Linux, see Tutorial:Compiling & Installing SWORD.

Compiling The SWORD Project using MS Visual Studio 2008

1. Create a build directory, hereafter referred to as $dir$. Much of the Sword build process expects that various downloads be unpacked to the same directory.

Compiling cURL

1. Download the latest release of cURL
2. Extract the ZIP to $dir$
3. Rename the cURL directory to "curl" (with no version number)
4. Open $dir$\curl\vc6curl.dsw
5. Allow Visual Studio to update the project files
6. Build all (Click Build | Batch Build... | Select All | Build)

Compiling icu-sword

1. Download the latest release of icu-sword
2. Extract the tarball to $dir$
3. Open $dir$\icu-sword\source\allinone\allinone.sln
4. Build all (Click Build | Batch Build... | Select All | Build)

Compiling libsword

1. Download the latest release of The SWORD Project
2. Extract the tarball to $dir$

   If you are building utilities or diatheke, the following steps are not necessary:

3. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\lib\vcppmake\vc8\libsword.vcproj
4. Build all (Click Build | Batch Build... | Select All | Build)

Compiling utilities

1. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\vcppmake\utilities.sln
2. Build all (Click Build | Batch Build... | Select All | Build)

Compiling diatheke

1. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\diatheke\diatheke.vcproj
2. Build all (Click Build | Batch Build... | Select All | Build)

Cross Compiling Sword for MS Windows on Suse Linux with MingW

Suse with MingW

Installation of all necessary dependencies of Sword, but for CLucene - libcurl, ICU, libgnurx etc Compilation of Clucene Compilation of Sword