Xapian discuss - Jan 2008 - xapian with MinGW - solved

Hi,

   I got this issue nailed out. :-D

   The problem was with the zlib package offered by MinGW.

   _Never_ use zlib-1.2.3-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 package, _it's broken_!

   Instead, download the pre-compiled version of zlib from zlib.net,
and use that to build Xapian with MinGW on Windows.


Regards,
Adi.

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 01:04:27AM +0200, Adi Oanca
wrote:
>    I got this issue nailed out. :-D
Oh, I missed this when I replied to the other message because this
wasn't in the same thread.
>    The problem was with the zlib package offered by MinGW.
> 
>    _Never_ use zlib-1.2.3-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 package, _it's broken_!
You really should report this to the mingw people, if you haven't
already.

Cheers,
    Olly

Hi,

   Must say another thing here (to stay in the archives, maybe someone
else will have the same problem), as I only did a "make check" before
writing my previous mail.

   By getting zlib from zlib.net, only xapian's static library is
buit, because "libzlib.dll.a"(../configure finds -lzlib) is not found
for linking the xapian DLL.
   So, you must download zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2 from MinGW
website, compile and install the library.
   Then, after another '../configure' and 'make' the Xapian DLL
will be built.

Hope this may help someone.

Regards,
Adi.

On Jan 10, 2008 1:04 AM, Adi Oanca <adioanca@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I got this issue nailed out. :-D
>
>    The problem was with the zlib package offered by MinGW.
>
>    _Never_ use zlib-1.2.3-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 package, _it's broken_!
>
>    Instead, download the pre-compiled version of zlib from zlib.net,
> and use that to build Xapian with MinGW on Windows.
>
>
> Regards,
> Adi.
>