Install Bibledit on Windows

Preparations

Start Windows, or reboot it, and then login as the Administrator to obtain installation privileges.

Note. If you login with your own username, and that username contains spaces, like in "Joe Johnson", then installation of Bibledit will fail.

Ensure that an internet browser has been installed, and a pdf reader such as Acrobat Reader.

Cygwin

As Bibledit assumes that a Unix variant is there, Windows needs Cygwin which emulates a Linux environment.

To install Cygwin, go to http://www.cygwin.com and click the "Install or update now!" link, which will give you a file called setup.exe. Install this file. While in the install wizard, choose the option "Install from Internet", as the downloaded setup.exe needs to download many packages that are going to make up the Cygwin system. During setup leave the options as it recommends. If you change the path where Cygwin gets installed, Bibledit's online help and printing won't work. When it comes to selecting a download site, select one near you. The next page enables you to select packages that are going to be installed. Click the "View" button to change the view to "Full". Leave the ones already selected, and in addition select these ones:

atk-devel, autoconf (stable version), automake1.9, binutils, fontconfig, gcc, glib2-devel, gnome-vfs2, gtk2-x11-devel, libfontconfig-devel, libXft-devel, make, pango-devel, pkgconfig, psmisc, readline, unzip, xorg-x11-fscl, zip.

Proceed and Cygwin setup will download a lot of files from the internet. This takes a good while. Finish the installation.

When through, it will create an icon on the Desktop and in the Start menu. Click the icon to start Cygwin. A terminal will open.

Sqlite3

Download a version of sqlite3, e.g. sqlite-3.3.4.tar.gz, from http://www.sqlite.org.

Move this file to directory c:/cygwin/home/<user>.

Open a Cygwin terminal.

To verify the package is there, type

ls

To unpack sqlite3 type

tar zxf sqlite-3.3.4.tar.gz

To enter the newly created directory, type

cd sqlite-3.3.4

To configure sqlite, type

./configure --prefix=/usr

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To compile sqlite, type

make

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To install sqlite, type

make install

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To go back to the home directory, type

cd

Bibledit

Download package bibledit-x.x.tar.gz (x.x is to be replaced with the actual version number).

Move it to directory c:\cygwin\home\<user>.

In the Cygwin terminal, to verify the package is there, type

ls

To unpack bibledit type

tar zxf bibledit-x.x.tar.gz

To enter the newly created directory, type

cd bibledit-x.x

To configure bibledit, type

./configure

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To compile bibledit, type

make

Watch many messages, but no errors.

To install it, type

make install

Watch many messages, but no errors.

Bibledit Windows Outpost

Download and install bwoutpostxx.exe (xx is to be replaced with the actual version number).

Login

Now logout as the Administrator and login with your own username.

Run Bibledit

Every time you run Bibledit, open a Cygwin terminal, and in that terminal type

startx

This starts a graphical terminal. In that terminal, type

bibledit

XEP

Download and install a Sun Java virtual machine.

Install XEP.