Setting up a development environment

Jan 07, 2023

The following instructions help set up the development environment required to develop on STEP.

Sign up to mailing lists

There are several mailing lists that would be helpful to sign up. CrossWire host these:

Sword-devel - All general questions about the Sword project go here as well as their C++ library
JSword-devel - We use JSword, the Java library, to provide Bible & Commentary text
Tyndale-devel - Our own mailing list - not very active, but that could change.

Create accounts at:

https://stepweb.atlassian.net
https://github.com/
set up an SSH key for git (after which you probably need to close the command window and open it again)

Fork the following repositories

In this folder, there is a page to setup on Windows and a page to setup on Mac. Follow one of those pages for the rest of the installation.

Dec 10, 2015

A few remarks on this installation page:

*** Create accounts::set up an SSH key for git

Here the -al parameter does not work, (yes in unix it does, but not on my windows machine) "ls -l" will be sufficient

Another thing "CLIP < Filename" does not work. So I suggest instead use "cat Filename | CLIP"

***Build the code:On installing mvn

Be sure to run the processes jsword and step consecutively, not parallel, since this will fail.

(edited)