Xapian devel - Nov 2006 - Win32/MSVC compilation for 0.9.8

Hiya,

I'm working on updating the MSVC build files for 0.9.8 (I've been 
assuming that it's not worth doing this for 0.9.7).

One small problem; we can't build the remote backend in this environment 
  because the network code is waay too Unixy. Thus I'm getting a problem 
building some of the tests; specifically  test_serialisedoc1() and 
test_serialiselength1() in internaltest.cc.

Am I right in thinking that this code should be wrapped in
#ifdef XAPIAN_HAS_REMOTE_BACKEND anyway? If so it will mean we'll have 
to have a patch or something for people who want to use the MSVC tools.

Cheers

Charlie

On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:01:59PM +0000, Charlie Hull
wrote:
> I'm working on updating the MSVC build files for 0.9.8 (I've been 
> assuming that it's not worth doing this for 0.9.7).
Yes, there's no point doing 0.9.7 now 0.9.8 is out.

Are you aware Richard has been working on them too?
> [...]
> Am I right in thinking that this code should be wrapped in
> #ifdef XAPIAN_HAS_REMOTE_BACKEND anyway?
Yes - I've committed a fix.
> If so it will mean we'll have 
> to have a patch or something for people who want to use the MSVC tools.
I'm intending to release 0.9.9 very shortly.  The main thing this
fixes is building the bindings with Python 2.5 on 64 bit platforms.

So if you find anything else which needs fixing, report it promptly!

Cheers,
    Olly