Installing BibleMemorizer

Currently you must install BibleMemorizer from source. Here are the instructions:

BibleMemorizer is based on Qt. It uses the qmake installation system provided by Trolltech, the makers of Qt (http://www.trolltech.com). First install Qt, if it is not present. It is included with most Linux distributions (All KDE users have it, but they may not have the -devel package often necessary for compiling.) Qt 3 is available free of charge under the QPL (Trolltech's open source license) and the GPL for Mac OS X and most other forms of Unix. Qt 4 is available under the GPL for the above platforms as well as Windows, and is supported for building BibleMemorizer as of BibleMemorizer 0.4.

On Unix (including Mac OS X), first you must run the fake "configure" script (that actually runs qmake) to setup your install. There are two options:

--prefix={installation folder}

BibleMemorizer's executable will be put in the "bin" subdirectory" of whatever you put here. Do NOT include the final "/" in the path name. (e.g. use "/usr" rather than "/usr/"). It defaults to "/usr".
Defines "MAIN_PATH={installation folder}"

--sword-path={Sword "include" folder}

If you have Sword installed on your system and would like to use it with BibleMemorizer, add this option and specify the include directory for Sword. (e.g. --sword-path=/usr/include/sword)
Defines "CONFIG+=sword"
Defines "SWORD_PATH={Sword "include" folder}"

For Windows, you should be able to get a build by running:

qmake -o Makefile biblememorizer.pro

If you want a robust install, you will need to edit the .pro file yourself for now. "make install" might not work with the default file.

On Windows, you will have to edit the .plugin files (with plugin metadata) in order for BibleMemorizer to work, as library names are not preceded by "lib" on Windows.

You can now use "make" and "make install" as usual. For those not familiar with make, you just run "make" and then "make install" when it finishes. If you ever need to uninstall BibleMemorizer, even to install a new version, you can run "make uninstall" in the same directory you installed it from.

Check this page next time you install an upgrade. I may add further options. (Alternatively see the file INSTALL in the source directory, which has the same content.)