[Xapian-discuss] Building Xapian/Omega using Cygwin

[Floris Bos]

Hello,

I've been doing quite a bit of web searching and I came up with a solution 
for the problem.

I looked in the quartz_database.cc file and put the following code just 
before the code-line that includes safewindows.h (James pointed out earlier 
that this was the problem):

# ifndef __WIN32__
#  define __WIN32__
# endif

after that I ended up doing exactly the same for these two files:

from flint_lock.h
from flint_database.cc

After this I was able t build Xapian and Omega without any further problems. 
They both seem to work since I've inserted my first documents in my first 
Xapian db (thanks for helping me out with my questions about scriptindex 
James). I still don't have a clue about the cause of the problem with 
__win32__ however.

The only weird thing that happened later is that I wasn't able to execute 
omega because cygxapian-8.dll could not been found. I solved that by copying 
cygxapian-8.dll from the /xapian/bin directory to the omega/bin directory. 
Is this copy action alwas needed or did I still do something wrong in the 
installation procedure?

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it!