Install Bibledit for Windows

Introduction

This is a description of how Bibledit can be compiled for the Windows platform.

Under construction.

Cross-compiler package

Download a cross-compiler package from http://www.libsdl.org/extras/win32/cross. At the time of writing this, file mingw32-linux-x86-glibc-2.3.tar.gz was downloaded.

Decide on a location for your cross system. In this example, it will be put in /home/joe/cross-tools.

Assuming you work from the home directory, just type

tar zxf mingw32-linux-x86-glibc-2.3.tar.gz

This will put everything in /home/joe/cross-tools.

Windows API

Install the appropriate headers and import libraries to support the Windows API. Get the API from the mingw download area, choose package Current, then Windows API, and download the package. As of this writing, the package downloaded was w32api-3.8.tar.gz.

Untar the package in the appropriate place. In this example, /home/joe/cross-tools is the cross tools root, and cross-gcc will be found in /home/joe/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc. Type these lines:

cd /home/joe/cross-tools/i386-mingw32msvc
cp ~/w32api-3.8.tar.gz .
tar zxf w32api-3.8.tar.gz

Notes

The information below was compiled with the help of http://www.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/cross-gtk.