Tutorial:Compiling & Installing SWORD on Windows

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 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

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:

1. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\lib\vcppmake\vc8\libsword.vcproj
2. Build all

Compiling utilities

1. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\vcppmake\utilities.sln
2. Build all

Compiling diatheke

1. Open $dir$\sword-$version$\utilities\diatheke\diatheke.vcproj
2. Build all