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

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 04:53:10PM +0100, Richard Boulton wrote:
> Olly Betts wrote:
> >There doesn't need to be a configure, since msvc/version.h is shipped in
> >the tarball:
> 
> True.  It would be nice if windows builds could be performed from SVN, 
> though (with the old version.h file, this worked, albeit with the wrong 
> version number).

I thought we'd agreed that it was reasonable to expect people to
use SVN snapshots on Windows?
 
> I'm not sure there's a clean fix for this, though - other than to make 
> configure capable of building with MSVC, and using MSYS.

In this case, you just need to be able to be able to run "autoreconf",
and then run configure so it can generate msvc/version.h.

Cheers,
    Olly