Building Bibletime 2 from source

Update: This was written for version 1.7, but the same process works with version 2.

Version 2 of Bibletime has been changed to run on Qt4, giving it a KDE 4 feel.it has a variety of nice features. Some of the new features are:

• Bookshelf Manager installer has been redesigned. It’s much easier to use and it doesn’t block the rest of the user interface.
• The main Bookshelf panel has been rewritten. It’s possible to group the works by Category and/or Language. Rarely used works can be hidden.
• Bookmarks have been moved to another tab. It’s possible to move and copy folders.
• Bible and Commentary windows have dropdown lists for book, chapter and verse.
• Search dialog has an option for AND and OR searches.

The features that I like the most are things like being able to drag bible references from one panel into another.

If you want to compile from source, you need a lot of dependencies. I was joking to myself, perhaps the devil is trying to keep you in dep hell? Here’s most of what you need (Ubuntu 9.04):

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev qmake libclucene0ldbllibclucene-dev qt4-qmake cmake kdelibs5-dev libsword-dev

That will save you a lot of grief and googling bizarre error messages.

And I think you need to change build/CMakeCache.txt if you get an error saying that the compiler is not found.

//CXX compiler.
CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/usr/bin/g++-4.3

There seems to be an issue with panels in the latest version locking up sometimes. I’ll look into this some more.

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