From: Peter v. K. <re...@gm...> - 2011-09-20 20:09:24
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Hi guys, My name is Peter von Kaehne. I am a volunteer of Xiphos Bible study software (www.xiphos.org). Our main Windows maintainer/developer has left the team and we are now pretty much demoralised - a release has been held back nearly 3 months, solely because we can not release a working Windows built. Xiphos relies on GTK2 or 3 (both is possible), webkit, clucene, ICU and libsword. It is easily one of the most powerful open source Bible study programmes. But right now we are pretty much demoralised. A lot of us have tried to replicate what our guy did in the past - building a native or a crosscompile mingw environment, compile the libraries not yet available, compile xiphos and wrap it all up with nsis. But all of us have failed. Some got it to work to a point, but important features fail, others, like myself do not even succeed in a working Windows compile. Linux etc is of course just perfect. My own role is rather limited - translation coordination and encouraging when others become demoralised. So I can not even ask here for hints what to do - as I am usually glad enough if I get things compiled on Linux and my attempt right now to compile on mingw was abortive probably before I started. I am writing to see if there is anyone who wants to rise to the challenge and help us - see together with our main Linux guy the current svn HEAD through to release on Windows and help him or someone else of us to built a lasting and reliable (x-)compile environment for Windows. I hoe you do not see this mail as spamming your list, but we are really rather down at the moment. Yours Peter |
From: JonY <jo...@us...> - 2011-09-20 22:47:54
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On 9/21/2011 04:09, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > Hi guys, > > My name is Peter von Kaehne. I am a volunteer of Xiphos Bible study > software (www.xiphos.org). > > Our main Windows maintainer/developer has left the team and we are now > pretty much demoralised - a release has been held back nearly 3 months, > solely because we can not release a working Windows built. > > Xiphos relies on GTK2 or 3 (both is possible), webkit, clucene, ICU and > libsword. It is easily one of the most powerful open source Bible study > programmes. But right now we are pretty much demoralised. > > A lot of us have tried to replicate what our guy did in the past - > building a native or a crosscompile mingw environment, compile the > libraries not yet available, compile xiphos and wrap it all up with > nsis. But all of us have failed. Some got it to work to a point, but > important features fail, others, like myself do not even succeed in a > working Windows compile. Linux etc is of course just perfect. > > My own role is rather limited - translation coordination and encouraging > when others become demoralised. So I can not even ask here for hints > what to do - as I am usually glad enough if I get things compiled on > Linux and my attempt right now to compile on mingw was abortive probably > before I started. > > I am writing to see if there is anyone who wants to rise to the > challenge and help us - see together with our main Linux guy the current > svn HEAD through to release on Windows and help him or someone else of > us to built a lasting and reliable (x-)compile environment for Windows. > > I hoe you do not see this mail as spamming your list, but we are really > rather down at the moment. > > Yours > > Peter I'll stick to giving advice for now due to lack of time, what exactly are you having problems with? Compile errors? Missing dependencies? |
From: Peter v. K. <re...@gm...> - 2011-09-20 23:22:51
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On 20/09/11 23:47, JonY wrote: > I'll stick to giving advice for now due to lack of time, what exactly > are you having problems with? Compile errors? Missing dependencies? We have approached it from three angles - I have used SUSE and mingw. I can not get clucene compiled. Compile error. this might be my own problem. Others have tried to build on RedHat or to build on Windows. All of us though have stumbled on various places, no one has a valid, working application. I am the wrong person to pursue the matter further as I am not a programmer - I simply got fed up with our level of frustration and paralysis. If you are willing to assist us, I will get Karl and Greg onto this list and let them do the talking. Thanks Jon! Peter |
From: xunxun <xun...@gm...> - 2011-09-20 23:28:02
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于 2011/9/21 7:22, Peter von Kaehne 写道: > Compile error If you show the detailed errors, I think many people may help you. -- Best Regards, xunxun |
From: JonY <jo...@us...> - 2011-09-20 23:33:28
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On 9/21/2011 07:32, xunxun wrote: > 于 2011/9/21 7:22, Peter von Kaehne 写道: >> Compile error > If you show the detailed errors, I think many people may help you. > As xunxun advised, please show some of the error messages. For example using "make 2>&1 | tee error.log" to record the messages, in this case, from the make command. |
From: Peter v. K. <re...@gm...> - 2011-09-26 12:56:29
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On 26/09/11 13:45, Earnie Boyd wrote: > Peter, > > Hello and welcome to MinGW. I'll download your code and see what I can > do with it. Not promising much. I've requested membership to > GnomeSword-developers list so I can ask questions there. Earnie - many thanks! Peter |