Richhiey Thomas
2015-Jan-06 13:53 UTC
[Xapian-discuss] Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 4
Hey, Thanks olly. I set ubuntu up to make it easier to build xapian. Got the build done and am looking into issues to get familiar with the code and API. But I will try it out on windows again and get back if I face problems. On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 12:00 PM, <xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org> wrote:> Send Xapian-discuss mailing list submissions to > xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > xapian-discuss-owner at lists.xapian.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Xapian-discuss digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 3 (Richhiey Thomas) > 2. Interest in GSOC 2015 project (Richhiey Thomas) > 3. Re: Building Xapian on windows (Olly Betts) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:23:19 +0530 > From: Richhiey Thomas <richhiey.thomas at gmail.com> > To: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 3 > Message-ID: > <CAPHaz=AXjMknBq+4PzwUy+XWCB2nDXrSKQyNV> reSQkPOm9dUw at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hey, > The MSVC build started taking up too much time so I set up a linux > environment and managed building xapian from the git repository. Thank you > all for those pointers though. :) > > On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 5:30 PM, <xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org> > wrote: > > > Send Xapian-discuss mailing list submissions to > > xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > xapian-discuss-owner at lists.xapian.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of Xapian-discuss digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 1 (Charlie Hull) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:56:58 +0000 > > From: Charlie Hull <charlie at juggler.net> > > To: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 1 > > Message-ID: <54AA5FEA.60504 at juggler.net> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > > > On 03/01/2015 12:31, James Aylett wrote: > > > I?m pretty sure Richhiey is using the MSVC build system. Sadly at the > > > moment this doesn?t have a maintainer; it?s on my list of things to > > > look at, but not quite at the top, so I don?t have any help to offer > > > on this :-( > > > > I was the maintainer of this, and sadly haven't managed to keep it up to > > date. However I can say that you should look for a file 'deps.d' as > > detailed in the README file included with the win32 MSVC build files > > (look from around line 50). This should help you trace the problem. > > > > The MSVC build process, although necessary for some (i.e. those wanting > > to link with MSVC-built DLLs such as Python) was always a horrible hack > > I'm afraid and the dependency checking stuff is one of the nastiest > parts! > > > > Cheers > > > > Charlie > > > > > > > > J > > > > > >> On 3 Jan 2015, at 12:25, Abhishek Singh Kushwah > > >> <abhishek18kushwah at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > >> Hey Richhiey, > > >> > > >> Most probably Xapian is used with CYGWIN in Windows and Windows > > >> Specific Code in Xapian is based on CYGWIN, However we would be > > >> able to help you out with this issue, if you could pastebin whole > > >> 'gnu-make' generated report. > > >> > > >> Regards, Abhishek > > >> > > >> > > >> On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 5:30 PM, > > >> <xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Send Xapian-discuss mailing list submissions to > > >>> xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > >>> > > >>> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > >>> http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss or, via > > >>> email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > >>> xapian-discuss-request at lists.xapian.org > > >>> > > >>> You can reach the person managing the list at > > >>> xapian-discuss-owner at lists.xapian.org > > >>> > > >>> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more > > >>> specific than "Re: Contents of Xapian-discuss digest..." > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> Today's Topics: > > >>> > > >>> 1. Building Xapian on windows (Richhiey Thomas) > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > Message: 1 > > >>> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2015 03:27:05 +0530 From: Richhiey Thomas > > >>> <richhiey.thomas at gmail.com> To: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > >>> Subject: [Xapian-discuss] Building Xapian on windows Message-ID: > > >>> <CAPHaz> > >>> CopHLo2g5HJyVXABstJjVg5xf_uKTRTpLa2_swE9vsoA at mail.gmail.com> > > >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > >>> > > >>> Hello this is Richhiey. I am new to Xapian and I tried to build > > >>> Xapian on windows using Visual C++ Express 2010. But it gives me > > >>> fatal error U1077 : 'cl.exe' : return code '0x2' I read that this > > >>> signifies a compilation error while dependencies were being > > >>> checked but am not able to understand how to tackle this. Can > > >>> someone help me out? > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> ------------------------------ > > >>> > > >>> Subject: Digest Footer > > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ Xapian-discuss > > >>> mailing list Xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > >>> http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> ------------------------------ > > >>> > > >>> End of Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 1 > > >>> ********************************************** > > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ Xapian-discuss > > >> mailing list Xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > >> http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > Subject: Digest Footer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Xapian-discuss mailing list > > Xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > > http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > End of Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 3 > > ********************************************** > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 23:36:24 +0530 > From: Richhiey Thomas <richhiey.thomas at gmail.com> > To: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > Subject: [Xapian-discuss] Interest in GSOC 2015 project > Message-ID: > <CAPHaz> CUNd6qJtD0mX85cTuebxc4guYDjXWyBVvb2GAotBc2ug at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hey. This is Richhiey Thomas. I am currently studying Computer Science at > Mumbai University. > > The project 'Clustering of search results' has caught my attention and I > would like to contribute to the same. > > I have a good understanding of a few clustering algorithms and have a > decent hold over C++. Could I know what kind of algorithms have been used > in the past for the same? > > Also any feedback on how to proceed would be appreciated. :) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 04:28:40 +0000 > From: Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> > To: Abhishek Singh Kushwah <abhishek18kushwah at gmail.com> > Cc: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Building Xapian on windows > Message-ID: <20150106042839.GA23056 at survex.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 05:55:25PM +0530, Abhishek Singh Kushwah wrote: > > Most probably Xapian is used with CYGWIN in Windows and Windows Specific > > Code in Xapian is based on CYGWIN, > > Just to be clear, Xapian supports building on Windows both with and > without Cygwin. > > But as James notes, the "MSVC makefiles" haven't been actively > maintained for some time, and don't work for building current trunk. > > What would be ideal would be to sort out allowing building using MSVC > with the standard build system - this shouldn't be hard to do, but needs > someone actually developing on Windows to work on it. It would require > having the MSYS tools installed, but that's not a difficult requirement > given our target audience is developers. If that's really felt to be > too hard, we can package up a build into an installer. > > This would be a much more maintainable solution that trying to have two > parallel build systems - the nmake one will inevitably be a second-class > citizen as most developers can't test it even if they wanted too, and > most quite reasonably won't want to as nmake is a very strange make > implementation. > > Cheers, > Olly > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Xapian-discuss mailing list > Xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org > http://lists.xapian.org/mailman/listinfo/xapian-discuss > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Xapian-discuss Digest, Vol 127, Issue 4 > ********************************************** >