[Xapian-devel] Windows build files

[Charlie Hull]

Hi all,

For several years I maintained the Windows build files for Xapian and we 
hosted them at http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian_binaries - we had a number 
of clients actively using Xapian at the time. This is no longer the case 
and we haven't worked on a Xapian project for several years now. I 
haven't managed to keep the files up to date unfortunately - the process 
is complicated and can be rather painful, requiring older versions of 
Microsoft tools to be located and run and some hacking of the Xapian 
sources.

We're going to be redesigning our website shortly and have thus taken 
the decision not to continue hosting these files. If anyone would like 
to take over the hosting of them do feel free - perhaps at least the 
Xapian homepage or Wiki should have a page mentioning how the files were 
built in the past, the latest README file at 
http://www.flax.co.uk/xapian/128/readme.txt would be a good start.

Of course there is also MINGW and the associated cross-compiling tools 
for building Xapian on a Windows system, which may be a safer route for 
some people.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Cheers

Charlie
Flax
www.flax.co.uk