Xapian devel - Apr 2018 - Need support to build xapian on Windows with Microsoft compiler

Dear XAPIAN developers,

I think your code is devoted also to be compiled on Windows with 
Microsoft compiler. I think so because
  1. There are many #ifdef _MSC_VER like code
  2. And if I remember correctly the xapian documentation,
     xapian has also C# bindings.
I need the xapian library for Windows Microsoft compiler. I created 
visual studio 2015 project and included almost all source files from the 
xapian-core repository. Compilation was sucessfull, but I have some 
runtime errors (exceptions). Could you please provide me Visual studio 
project file with proper options, or cmake file, or the list of 
necessary source files (to be included to the library compilation 
project) with necessary compilation and linkage options.
Also precompiled binaries with corresponding headers are acceptable.

Thank you in advance, and sorry for disturbing!
Sincerely,
Davit

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Dr. Kalantaryan Davit
============================================DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738
Zeuthen, Germany
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On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:31:33PM +0200, Kalantaryan, Davit
wrote:
>  2. And if I remember correctly the xapian documentation,
>     xapian has also C# bindings.
Microsoft's toolchain isn't required for C# - there's also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
> I need the xapian library for Windows Microsoft compiler. I created visual
> studio 2015 project and included almost all source files from the
> xapian-core repository.
I wouldn't recommend doing that - the build system needs to do more than
just compile all the source files and link them together.
> Could you please provide me Visual studio project file
> with proper options, or cmake file, or the list of necessary source files
> (to be included to the library compilation project) with necessary
> compilation and linkage options.
We don't support building with such a project file, nor with cmake.

It's not feasible to list all the tool options needed - that's the build
system's job, and it's much simpler and less error prone to just use the
existing build system to build the code rather than trying to create
your own build system from scratch.

There's support in git master and the tip of the RELEASE/1.4 branch for
building xapian-core with MSVC.  This support will be in 1.4.6 once that
is released.  You can use snapshots from here until then:

https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/RELEASE/1.4/

For instructions, see:

https://trac.xapian.org/browser/git/xapian-core/INSTALL?rev=RELEASE/1.4#L54

Currently only xapian-core is known to work.  It would be great to
extend that to omega and the bindings, and to add those to the existing
CI (see .appveyor.yml at the top of the tree), but that really needs
help from developers interested in support for this platform.
> Also precompiled binaries with corresponding headers are acceptable.
We don't currently provide pre-compiled binaries.

Cheers,
    Olly

Hello,

Thank you very much for quick response.
I need only xapian-core.
As I wrote on my case compilation with Visual Studio 2015 successful, 
just I have runtime errors, while the same code on LINUX runs fine.
I'll try the hints from 
(https://trac.xapian.org/browser/git/xapian-core/INSTALL?rev=RELEASE/1.4#L54) 
and maybe to migrate my project to VS2017 and test it again.
If I understand correctly starting from 1.4.6 you will have officiant 
MSVC support? What is a approximate date for this release?

Thank you again.
Sincerely,
Davit

On 30.04.2018 03:16, Olly Betts wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 06:31:33PM +0200, Kalantaryan, Davit wrote:
>>   2. And if I remember correctly the xapian documentation,
>>      xapian has also C# bindings.
> 
> Microsoft's toolchain isn't required for C# - there's also:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
> 
>> I need the xapian library for Windows Microsoft compiler. I created
visual
>> studio 2015 project and included almost all source files from the
>> xapian-core repository.
> 
> I wouldn't recommend doing that - the build system needs to do more
than
> just compile all the source files and link them together.
> 
>> Could you please provide me Visual studio project file
>> with proper options, or cmake file, or the list of necessary source
files
>> (to be included to the library compilation project) with necessary
>> compilation and linkage options.
> 
> We don't support building with such a project file, nor with cmake.
> 
> It's not feasible to list all the tool options needed - that's the
build
> system's job, and it's much simpler and less error prone to just
use the
> existing build system to build the code rather than trying to create
> your own build system from scratch.
> 
> There's support in git master and the tip of the RELEASE/1.4 branch for
> building xapian-core with MSVC.  This support will be in 1.4.6 once that
> is released.  You can use snapshots from here until then:
> 
> https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/RELEASE/1.4/
> 
> For instructions, see:
> 
> https://trac.xapian.org/browser/git/xapian-core/INSTALL?rev=RELEASE/1.4#L54
> 
> Currently only xapian-core is known to work.  It would be great to
> extend that to omega and the bindings, and to add those to the existing
> CI (see .appveyor.yml at the top of the tree), but that really needs
> help from developers interested in support for this platform.
> 
>> Also precompiled binaries with corresponding headers are acceptable.
> 
> We don't currently provide pre-compiled binaries.
> 
> Cheers,
>      Olly
> 
-- 
Dr. Kalantaryan Davit
============================================DESY, Platanenallee 6, 15738
Zeuthen, Germany
+49 33762 77552        davit.kalantaryan at desy.de