FLExBridge is an add-on to FieldWorks (http://fieldworks.sil.org; https://github.com/sillsdev/FwDocumentation/wiki) that supports using Chorus (https://github.com/sillsdev/chorus) to allow multiple users to share data.

FLEx Bridge depends on several assemblies from Chorus and Palaso. Versions of these assemblies are no longer in the repo. Therefore, to build FLEx Bridge, you must get the latest versions of these assemblies by running this in a Bash window:

Windows download_dependencies_windows.sh

Linux download_dependencies_linux.sh

If necessary, both download_dependencies can be updated using the tool at https://github.com/chrisvire/BuildUpdate (requires Ruby).

If you plan to work on Chorus,

• clone the Chorus and LibPalaso repos from https://github.com/sillsdev/chorus and https://github.com/sillsdev/libpalaso into the same parent directory as flexbridge without changing their repository names
• run GetAndBuildThis.bat to: Download the latest commit on your branch of FLExBridge (if you have no uncommitted changes), GetAndBuild LibPalaso and Chorus recursively, copy dependencies from LibPalaso to Chorus to FLExBridge, and build FLExBridge

    $ cp ../libpalaso/lib/Debug/icu.net.dll* ../libpalaso/lib/DebugMono
$ PATH=/usr/bin:$PATH make [debug|release] #This will prefer the System Mono over fieldworks-mono

To run FLExBridge you must unzip chorus/lib/common/Mercurial.zip to the root of flexbridge. Then, edit the mercurial.ini file in the Mercurial folder. Add a line like this (with the appropriate path for your flexbridge folder):

fixutf8 = C:\Dev\flexbridge\MercurialExtensions\fixutf8\fixutf8.py

Note that this is in addition to unzipping this folder per the Chorus ReadMe.

Add the following keys to your registry (32-bit OS: omit 'Wow6432Node', Mono: export env var FLEXBRIDGEDIR):

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SIL\Flex Bridge\9] "InstallationDir"="C:\Dev\flexbridge\output\Debug"

Also, if you are working on Chorus:

• Copy Chorus.exe, LibChorus.dll, and Palaso dll's to C:\fwrepo\fw\output\Debug (or Release). You can do this using the UpdateFLExDependencies.bat script in the flexbridge repo These steps are required for only those dependencies bound at compile time (e.g. API changes):
• Rebuild FLEx

When releasing FLExBridge be sure to do the following: