[Xapian-devel] Adding an external library to Xapian

[James Aylett]

On 13 Apr 2014, at 15:24, Siddhant Mutha <siddhantmutha at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are writing a new module which needs to be added to the Xapian source. For this, what modifications are to be made to the Makefile?
> The two modules we are writing will be in the 'include' and 'api' folders.

I believe (from a quick inspection of the build system) that:

 * add new external API headers (ie ones that get installed for library users) to xapianinclude_HEADERS in include/Makefile.mk

 * sources in api/ should be added to lib_src in api/Makefile.mk

 * headers in api/ (which won't be installed for library users) should be added to noinst_HEADERS in api/Makefile.mk

That should be enough, providing you're in maintainer mode, which will be true if you've built from a git checkout.

J

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