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

Revision as of 07:53, 17 October 2009

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.

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

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-=== Compiling SWORD using MS Visual Studio 2008 ===
+== Compiling The SWORD Project using MS Visual Studio 2008 ==
-# Download SWORD [http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.6/sword-1.6.0.tar.gz sourcecode]
-# Unpack it somewhere with something like 7zip
+# 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.
-# Open sword-1.6.0/utilities/vcppmake/utilities.sln
-# Compile.
+=== Compiling icu-sword ===
+# Download the latest release of [http://crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/icu-sword/ icu-sword]
+# Extract the tarball to $dir$
+# Open $dir$\icu-sword\source\allinone\allinone.sln
+# Build all
+=== Compiling libsword ===
+# Download the latest release of [http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.6/ The SWORD Project]
+# Extract the tarball to $dir$
+If you are building utilities or diatheke, the following steps are not necessary:
+# Open $dir$\sword-$version$\lib\vcppmake\vc8\libsword.vcproj
+# Build all
+=== Compiling utilities ===
+# Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\vcppmake\utilities.sln
+# Build all
+=== Compiling diatheke ===
+# Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\diatheke\diatheke.vcproj
+# Build all