[Xapian-discuss] Building on Windows

[Olly Betts]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 01:01:09PM -0700, Craig Lee wrote:
> That did the trick.
> 
> - making sure that the 'find.exe' in cygwin was found first
> - using --prefix and setting it to a directory without spaces

I don't believe this second step is necessary - automake 1.8.3 fixed
this problem and the Xapian 0.9.1 release was generated with automake
1.9.5.  If this really doesn't work we should tell the automake
developers.

It can be a problem if the sources are unpacked under a path which
contains a space.  I just checked that under UNIX and this fails to
work there.

> Are there some tests I can run to certify that the build is OK?

make check

A few tests may skip (they require large data files which we don't
include in the tarballs), but none should fail.

Cheers,
    Olly