Re: [sword-devel] Windows users as "poor cousins"?

2009-10-03 Thread Greg Hellings
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote: > > Jonathan Morgan wrote (after quoting my entire lengthy message): > > > In my opinon, the expected compiler to be used for Windows binaries is > > VC++, whether it is proprietary or not (for example, ask Mozilla, or > > OpenOffice, or Pyth

Re: [sword-devel] compiling on Windows

2009-10-03 Thread Chris Little
Matthew Talbert wrote: I am not a programmer ( I'm a wanna be) but have access to MS Visual Studio 6, 2005 & 2008, so options 1 and 3 would be the most beneficial for me. I think having all of these options documented on the wiki as David Haslam has suggested would be valuable. Feel free to

Re: [sword-devel] compiling on Windows

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Blake
Matthew Talbert wrote: I am not a programmer ( I'm a wanna be) but have access to MS Visual Studio 6, 2005 & 2008, so options 1 and 3 would be the most beneficial for me. I think having all of these options documented on the wiki as David Haslam has suggested would be valuable. Feel free

Re: [sword-devel] compiling on Windows

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I am not a programmer ( I'm a wanna be) but have access to MS Visual Studio > 6, 2005 & 2008, so options 1 and 3 would be the most beneficial for me.  I > think having all of these options documented on the wiki as David Haslam has > suggested would be valuable. Feel free to put this on the wiki

Re: [sword-devel] compiling on Windows

2009-10-03 Thread Dan Blake
Matthew Talbert wrote: On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Gerald Zimmerman wrote: I have an additional request. Windows, as delivered, makes everything easy for "frontenders" but ignores any thirst for the knowledge of compiling. I suspect that any of us Windows users could use the most rec

Re: [sword-devel] compiling on Windows

2009-10-03 Thread David Haslam
Hi Matthew, Please see http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Tutorial:Compiling_%26_Installing_SWORD http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:Tutorial:Compiling_%26_Installing_SWORD Let's have the useful stuff where it is easily accessed. David Matthew Talbert wrote: > > > Are you wanting: > > 1. I

Re: [sword-devel] Current downloadable binary Windows SWORD library (and utility) versions?

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I thought this is the kind of use case we are talking about here -- > people (SWORD power users, if you like) wanting current SWORD code (in > binary form) for Windows, because the recent SWORD library svn versions > have bug fixes and enhancements which earlier, released, SWORD binaries > for Wi

Re: [sword-devel] Current downloadable binary Windows SWORD library (and utility) versions?

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Talbert
> This would seem to suggest that the Xiphos 3.1.1a -supplied version of > osis2mod, which says it is r2169, is really r2400 (1.6.0) or later, in > disguise?  It doesn't appear to have the -d option or the -v option (its > help output lacks them, at least). Yes, actually it is a more recent versio

Re: [sword-devel] Current downloadable binary Windows SWORD library (and utility) versions?

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Talbert
> I don't see a clear way for a Windows only user to download a binary > osis2mod.exe that works for (for example) encrypting a module that has a > non-KJV versification.  Am I just not aware of a good location from > which to download such a binary?  Or, as I rather suspect, would such a > user in

Re: [sword-devel] Current downloadable binary Windows SWORD library (and utility) versions?

2009-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Jonathan Marsden wrote: > This would seem to suggest that the Xiphos 3.1.1a -supplied version of > osis2mod, which says it is r2169, is really r2400 (1.6.0) or later, in > disguise? It doesn't appear to have the -d option or the -v option ... It *does* have -v, my mistake. But r2169 is from May

[sword-devel] Current downloadable binary Windows SWORD library (and utility) versions?

2009-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Matthew Talbert wrote: > The binaries of SWORD itself (including the utilities) are already > available and have been available since very soon after the release > of 1.6.0, both from Crosswire and packaged with Xiphos. This would seem to suggest that the Xiphos 3.1.1a -supplied version of osis2m

Re: [sword-devel] Windows users as "poor cousins"?

2009-10-03 Thread Ben Morgan
Hi Jonathan, Visual Studio is the best way to compile on Windows. I used to compile with mingw + msys, but the environment feels slow and clumsy, and it produces larger, slower executables. And Visual Studio is free - you can download the express editions. Visual Studio seems to me much easier to

Re: [sword-devel] Windows users as "poor cousins"?

2009-10-03 Thread Matthew Talbert
I'll just say once again, that the "sword binaries" people are looking for at this point, is BibleCS 1.6.0 (which doesn't exist yet). There is *no* method of compiling this with gcc, so there's no point in even attempting it. The binaries of SWORD itself (including the utilities) are already availa

Re: [sword-devel] Windows users as "poor cousins"?

2009-10-03 Thread Jonathan Marsden
Jonathan Morgan wrote (after quoting my entire lengthy message): > In my opinon, the expected compiler to be used for Windows binaries is > VC++, whether it is proprietary or not (for example, ask Mozilla, or > OpenOffice, or Python). Expected by whom? Microsoft does not provide a compiler and l