Tutorial:Compiling & Installing SWORD
Contents
Aims
This page is intended to help anyone who needs to get started obtaining and compiling the very latest SWORD source code, and then installing and testing it on their machine, on a Linux (or possibly other Unix-like) operating system.
For Windows users, refer to Tutorial:Compiling & Installing SWORD on Windows.
NOTE: This process includes making Internet connections to crosswire.org, to download SWORD source code and a sample SWORD module.
Introduction
There are four main steps involved:
- Installing all the necessary software packages
- Downloading the latest development SWORD source code
- Compiling and installing SWORD
- Testing that the new SWORD installation is basically working
All of these can be scripted for a specific Linux distribution, and some sample scripts are provided below. An explanation of each step is also provided, in case you want to understand what the script does (!), or there is no script for your particular Linux distribution.
Scripts for some Linux distributions
The bash scripts below use sudo to become root when necessary, see below for more details on that.
Debian or Ubuntu
Note that official SWORD packages exist, please only use this script if you truly need to compile from source, and do NOT have the packaged version of SWORD installed.
#!/bin/bash PKGS="subversion build-essential autotools-dev pkg-config libz-dev libclucene-dev libicu-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev" sudo apt-get install $PKGS -y svn co http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk sword cd sword ./autogen.sh && ./usrinst.sh --enable-shared && make && sudo make install && sudo make install_config
Fedora 10 or Fedora 11
Note that official SWORD packages exist, please only use this script if you truly need to compile from source, and do NOT have the packaged version of SWORD installed.
#!/bin/bash PKGS="subversion gcc-c++ make libtool icu zlib-devel clucene-core-devel libicu-devel libcurl-devel" sudo yum install $PKGS -y svn co http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk sword cd sword ./autogen.sh && ./usrinst.sh --enable-shared && make && sudo make install && sudo make install_config
Mandriva
#!/bin/bash PKGS="colorsvn gcc-c++ make libtool icu zlib1-devel libclucene-devel libicu-devel libcurl-devel automake" sudo urpmi $PKGS svn co http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk sword cd sword ./autogen.sh && ./usrinst.sh --enable-shared && make && sudo make install && sudo make install_config
Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS
Note this script is a little more complex than most, because RHEL 5.x and CentOS 5.x lack the cluccene-core-devel library package. This means the script must manually download a source RPM package, rebuild it and install it, before it can work with the SWORD source code. And before it can do that, it has to make sure there is an appropriate setup for building RPMs from source in place.
#!/bin/bash PKGS="subversion gcc-c++ make libtool icu zlib-devel libicu-devel libcurl-devel findutils rpm-build" sudo yum install $PKGS -y if [ ! -f ~/.rpmmacros ]; then cat >>~/.rpmmacros <<EOF %_topdir ~/rpm %_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp EOF mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS,tmp} ~/rpm/RPMS/{athlon,i386,i486,i586,i686,noarch} fi rpmbuild --rebuild http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/10/Fedora/source/SRPMS/clucene-0.9.21-1.fc10.src.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh `find ~/rpm/RPMS/ -type f -name "*clucene*rpm" ! -name "*-debuginfo*"` svn co http://crosswire.org/svn/sword/trunk sword cd sword ./autogen.sh && ./usrinst.sh --enable-shared && make && sudo make install && sudo make install_config
Test script
The is a very basic test; in particular it does not check indexed search functions at all.
#!/bin/bash export SWORD_PATH=~/.sword mkdir -p $SWORD_PATH/mods.d echo yes |installmgr -init echo yes |installmgr -sc echo yes |installmgr -r CrossWire echo yes |installmgr -ri CrossWire KJV unset SWORD_PATH installmgr -l diatheke -b KJV -k Jn 3:16
This test script should output (after a lot of debugging information):
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (KJV)
Becoming root (using sudo)
In order to install software (including installing SWORD itself), you will need to be able to temporarily "become" root.
Most Linux (and several *BSD) distributions include a tool called sudo than can do this very conveniently, once set up, without having to repeatedly enter a root password. On some Linux distributions (including Ubuntu) this is already set up for you during the installation process. On others, you will need to
- Become root (i.e. obtain a root command shell) in some other way (log in as root, or use su, and type in the root password when prompted for it).
- Use the command
visudo
to edit the sudo configuration file. - Add a line
yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL
to the file, save the change and and exit your text editor.
- After that, you should be able to type
sudo id
to run the (harmless) command id as root. sudo will prompt you for your own password, but if it is used more than once within a short period, will "remember" that you have already provided it and not ask for it again. This is very convenient.
Installing necessary software packages
Starting from a fairly minimal Linux installation, a C++ compiler and several other libraries and tools must be added to the system before compiling SWORD. These come in packages. The command to install packages varies between different Linux distributions. A few examples follow:
- Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS
sudo yum install <list of packages>
- Debian, Ubuntu, Mint
sudo apt-get install <list of packages>
- Mandriva
sudo urpmi <list of packages>
These packaging tools will automatically install additional dependent packages, so the ones you request will work once installed.
Package names vary too, but generally the following packages must be installed:
- subversion (a tool used to obtain the latest SWORD source code, see below)
- the GNU C++ compiler, often in a package named g++ or gcc-c++
- make
- libtool
- icu
- zlib-devel (sometimes named zlib1-devel or zlib1g-dev)
- clucene-core-devel (sometimes named libclucene-dev)
- libicu-devel (sometimes named libicu-dev)
- libcurl-devel (named libcurl4-gnutls-dev on Debian-derived systems)
These will generally automatically "pull in" other necessary packages such as binutils, automake and autoconf as dependencies.
Downloading the SWORD source code
The single commandsvn http://crosswire.org/sword/svn/trunk swordwill download the current development code of SWORD, into a directory called sword. Once the command finishes, you should be able to do
cd swordand look at all the source code you just downloaded.
Compiling and installing SWORD
The INSTALL file contains all the details, but if all is well, after cd sword (i.e., from inside the SWORD source code directory) the command line./autogen.sh && ./usrinst.sh --enable-shared && maketo configure and compile SWORD.
If this fails, make sure all the necessary packages are installed on your system, and after that, please ask for help in the Crosswire forums or on the sword-devel mailing list.
To install SWORD, after successfully compiling SWORD, you can dosudo make install && sudo make install_configto install SWORD and a default configuration file on your machine.
Testing a new SWORD installation
As a very basic test, you can download and install the KJV SWORD "module" and then check that the command line bible reader diatheke can read a verse from it. The commands to do this (using the usual bash shell) are:
export SWORD_PATH=~/.sword mkdir -p $SWORD_PATH/mods.d echo yes |installmgr -init echo yes |installmgr -sc echo yes |installmgr -r CrossWire echo yes |installmgr -ri CrossWire KJV installmgr -l diatheke -b KJV -k Jn 3:16
If that displays a bunch of text, and then something very similar to:
John 3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (KJV)
then the SWORD installation is basically working.