Xapian discuss - May 2006 - Windows/MSVC build files

Hi all,

I've now finished tidying up the files originally created by Ulrik
Petersen for Xapian 0.9.5. These files will allow you to build Xapian
using Visual C++ version 7 or above on a Windows system.

This isn't a complete solution (for example, currently only the Python
bindings are supported) and it doesn't use the Unix build tools, so it's
best considered as a solution only for those who really need to use
Visual C - for example, if you want to use the binary Windows
distributions of Python.

I'm going to try and maintain these for each release of Xapian; any
comments or feedback are welcome. There's a not-quite-officially-ready
page at:

http://www.lemurconsulting.com/Products/Xapian/Overview.shtml

Cheers

Charlie
www.lemurconsulting.com

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 03:41:45PM +0100, Charlie Hull wrote:
> I've now finished tidying up the files originally created by Ulrik
> Petersen for Xapian 0.9.5. These files will allow you to build Xapian
> using Visual C++ version 7 or above on a Windows system.
That's excellent!
> This isn't a complete solution (for example, currently only the Python
> bindings are supported) and it doesn't use the Unix build tools, so
it's
> best considered as a solution only for those who really need to use
> Visual C - for example, if you want to use the binary Windows
> distributions of Python.
A thought: for people *really* using Microsoft tools these days, a
fair number are likely to be using .Net; if we provided a Managed C++
wrapper round Xapian, I believe it could be exported to *all* WSH
languages, or at least all .Net collaborating languages (which
includes Python, VC/C++, C#, JScript and VBScript, as well as lots and
lots of others).

I was recommended a while ago that that was probably the best way of
making Xapian available to C#, certainly. However I'm not 100% certain
that bits of the Xapian API aren't going to cause problems in MC++ - if
people think this is worthwhile, I'll see if Neil can have a look over
the interface and make some recommendations.

J

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