[Xapian-devel] Compiling 1.0.1 on windows : version.h

[Charlie Hull]

Daniel Ménard wrote:
> I tried to compile xapian 1.0.1 under windows but the new 
> /msvc/version.h file has #undef XAPIAN_HAS_REMOTE_BACKEND which prevents 
> /backends/dbfactory_remote.cc to be built.
> 
> The old (hand-written) version.h.win32 had it defined to 1.
> Everything build fine if I replace #undef with #define in version.h.
> 
> Cheers,

A related issue; the current SVN-HEAD build files don't copy in 
version.h correctly (there's no configure on Windows remember). Anyway, 
the following patch to \win32msvc\Makefile fixes it.

Cheers

Charlie

Index: Makefile
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--- Makefile	(revision 8907)
+++ Makefile	(working copy)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@
  # Copy mak files to the right folders
  COPYMAKFILES:
     copy config.h.win32 ..\config.h
-   copy ..\msvc\version.h ..\include\xapian\version.h
+   copy ..\msvc\version.h.in ..\include\xapian\version.h
     copy  win32_api.mak ..\api\Makefile
     copy  win32_backends.mak ..\backends\Makefile
     copy  win32_backends_flint.mak ..\backends\flint\Makefile