Xapian discuss - Mar 2018 - how to build 64bit xapian using MSVC2017?

hi, 

    I'm new in xapian project. I want to build 64bit xapian(1.2.8) from
source using MSVC 2017.
    But I cann't find any documents about 64bit compiling steps.
    I tried to replace the WIN32 with the WIN64 in the source files, then
compile all the source.
    But the query parser compiling failed.

    It seems the lemon.exe get a runtime error.

    Is there a official doc to describe the steps to build the 64bit xapian
using MSVC2017?

    Thanks.

    

    




lishu at fiberhome.com

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 03:31:38PM +0800, 李澍 wrote:
> I'm new in xapian project. I want to build 64bit xapian(1.2.8) from
> source using MSVC 2017.
The 1.2.x release series was retired about 6 months ago, and 1.2.8 is
far from being the latest version even in that retired release series
(it's more than 6 years old).

For a stable release, please use 1.4.x.  In particular, there are quite
a lot of recent changes on the RELEASE/1.4 branch (after 1.4.5) which
mean it can now be built with MSVC using the standard build system:

https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-January/009585.html

You can find bootstrapped snapshots from RELEASE/1.4 (equivalent to
release tarballs if we'd made a release at that point) here:

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

I didn't attempt 64-bit compilation, but would encourage people to try
to get that working.  As that message notes, you'll probably need to
disable (or fix) the remote backend for 64-bit compilation.
> But I cann't find any documents about 64bit compiling steps.  I tried
> to replace the WIN32 with the WIN64 in the source files, then compile
> all the source. 
That's unlikely to be the right approach, especially as WIN32 is
apparently still defined for 64-bit compilations.
> But the query parser compiling failed.
>
> It seems the lemon.exe get a runtime error.
If you tell us what the error is, we might be able to help.  But please
try with a RELEASE/1.4 snapshot rather than 1.2.8.
> Is there a official doc to describe the steps to build the 64bit
> xapian using MSVC2017?
No - currently the mail above is the nearest thing to docs on how to
build with MSVC at all.

Cheers,
    Olly

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 06:30:07PM +0000, Olly Betts
wrote:
> https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-January/009585.html
Related to this, the appveyor build is currently failing on git master.
Unfortunately the change at which is started to fail was the addition
of the new "honey" backend, which doesn't narrow things down to a
useful degree.

I've checked over the new code and turned up a few issues, but fixing
those didn't solve this.

It's failing for MSVC and mingw (but not cygwin) so I'm suspecting it
is something to do with the C runtime (since mingw uses MSVC's C
runtime DLL).  If someone who actually cares about this platform is
interested in helping that'd be great

Cheers,
    Olly