FWIW, I just now managed to cross-compile libsword for Windows on Suse and MingW - thanks to Matthew Talbert.
I will once I got myself organised enough do a write up on the Wiki. Peter On 28/09/11 23:36, Paul A. Martel wrote: > I found the solution to one of my problems with the windows build. > As of curl 7.22, the curl/types.h header no longer exists. > Since something like curl 7.12 or so (circa April 2004), it has just > been an empty file, > kept, I suspect, for backward compatibility, so maybe it's time that > the libsword modules can stopped needlessly including it? > > The situation does underscore that I am unintentionally breaking new > ground by taking the tutorial's advice to just "download the latest" > of each source package -- should I, for safety sake, be limiting > myself to the state of the art as of the tutorial's last update date > (August 2010) and cast a skeptical eye on anything more modern? Or > does anyone have a more current windows libsword build success story? > > If I had one, I'd be glad to share it. My prior experience doesn't > really count because I > had been using a hard-coded build script that statically linked the > .obj files from a slightly > patched libsword source tree, bypassing the whole library build > process. Not for the faint of heart. > > As things stand, even with my patch-arounds, I seem to be unable to > get a fully debuggable diatheke or utility (like osis2mod, just to > pick one) to launch. > > The windows build and install tutorial says nothing about "installing" > built components to make dynamic linking work, and my simple approach > of copying various *lib* files from Debug* > folders to my c:\bin\ folder seems to allow executables to find the > required .dll 's but I still get > warnings that I'm not getting their debug symbols. > > Can anyone explain the missing steps? > Thanks, > --paul > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
