[Xapian-devel] Re: Xapian Binding compile error in Windows XP using CygWin

[Olly Betts]

OK, there are two problems in the configure script.  You should be able to get
it to work if you edit xapian-bindings' configure script as follows...

Search for "libs" (including the quotes), and change this:

        case $host_os in
        mingw* | pw32*)
          PYTHON_LIBS=`$PYTHON -c 'import os,sys;print "-L"+os.path.join(sys.prefix,"libs").replace(os.sep,"/"),"-lpython"+sys.version[:3].replace(".","")'` ;;         *)
          PYTHON_LIBS=
        esac

to this (add "cygwin* |" and change "libs" to "lib"):

        case $host_os in
        cygwin* | mingw* | pw32*)
          PYTHON_LIBS=`$PYTHON -c 'import os,sys;print "-L"+os.path.join(sys.prefix,"lib").replace(os.sep,"/"),"-lpython"+sys.version[:3].replace(".","")'` ;;         *)
          PYTHON_LIBS=
        esac

Then "make distclean", rerun configure and make.  Let me know whether that
fixes it or not (if it does, I'll apply the change, if not we'll see if we
can work out what else is going wrong...)

Cheers,
    Olly