[Xapian-discuss] Building 0.9.10 with MSVC++ 2005 Express Edition

[Michael Sanders]

Charlie Hull wrote:
> Sorry, all these should be fixed if you re-download the build files. 
> I've also fixed up some paths in config.mak and win32.mak to cope better 
> with a standard 0.9.10 path structure.

Thanks Charlie.

Both the Python bindings and Omega now compile. \o/

Unfortunately I have now run in to a couple of more issues...

Python 2.5
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When used with Python 2.4, the Python bindings appear to work fine 
(smoketest.py gives no errors). When I try it with Python 2.5, it fails 
to import the Xapian module:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File 
"C:\downloads\xapian\xapian-core-0.9.10\win32\Release\Python\smoketest.py", 
line 22, in <module>
     import xapian
   File 
"C:\downloads\xapian\xapian-core-0.9.10\win32\Release\Python\xapian.py", 
line 6, in <module>
     import _xapian
ImportError: No module named _xapian

This was after re-compiling, having first edited the 'config.mak' file 
to set PYTHON_DIR and PYTHON_LIB to point at Python 2.5. I also tried 
recompiling the SWIG bindings, but this made no difference. Have you had 
it working with Python 2.5?

Omega
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Regarding omega.exe, when I run this from the command line, a window 
pops up with the message:

"omega.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry 
for the inconvenience."

When I run it after having compiled in debug mode (by running the 
platform SDK setenv.cmd with /XP32 and /DEBUG flags and editing the 
'config.mak' file), I get the following error in a pop-up:

----------------------------------
Microsoft Visual C++ Debug Library
Debug Assertion Failed!

Program: C:\Downloads\xapian\xapian-core-0.9.10\win32\Debug\omega.exe
File:mbstowcs.c
Line:69

Expression: s != NULL
----------------------------------

The 'mbstowcs.c' file is part of the Platform SDK and is used to convert 
multibyte char strings to wide char strings.

Does omega.exe run OK for you?

omindex.exe was a bit more promising in that it starts navigating the 
directory hierarchy and then hangs when it attempts to index a file, 
e.g. it hangs having printed the following line:

Indexing "/diveintopython-5.4/html/appendix/about.html" as text/html ...


Many thanks for your help.

Michael