[Xapian-discuss] xapian with MinGW - solved

[Adi Oanca]

Hi,

   Must say another thing here (to stay in the archives, maybe someone
else will have the same problem), as I only did a "make check" before
writing my previous mail.

   By getting zlib from zlib.net, only xapian's static library is
buit, because "libzlib.dll.a"(../configure finds -lzlib) is not found
for linking the xapian DLL.
   So, you must download zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2 from MinGW
website, compile and install the library.
   Then, after another '../configure' and 'make' the Xapian DLL will be built.

Hope this may help someone.

Regards,
Adi.

On Jan 10, 2008 1:04 AM, Adi Oanca <adioanca at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I got this issue nailed out. :-D
>
>    The problem was with the zlib package offered by MinGW.
>
>    _Never_ use zlib-1.2.3-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 package, _it's broken_!
>
>    Instead, download the pre-compiled version of zlib from zlib.net,
> and use that to build Xapian with MinGW on Windows.
>
>
> Regards,
> Adi.
>