[Xapian-discuss] xapian-bindings compile creates 34mb xapian_wrap.o file?

[Eric Parusel]

Olly Betts wrote:
> We really ought to have examples for every we have bindings for, but sadly
> we don't at present (contributions most welcome!)
> 
> The tcl8 bindings originally date back to the BrightStation days.  James
> got them working again fairly recently, but I think he said he doesn't
> know much tcl8 (and I don't either).

Hmm, if I go down the TCL road, I will try to supply some generic 
examples at least...


> If you don't know TCL, using C++ would probably be simpler:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.4/interactive/xfunc-c.html
> 
> The first sentence reads:
> 
>     User-defined functions can be written in C (or a language that can be
>     made compatible with C, such as C++)

Yeah, unfortunately posts like this:

http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-interfaces/2004-08/msg00020.php

are scaring me off of making a shared library that calls xapian's c++ 
library... :/


Thanks,
Eric