[Xapian-discuss] java bindings under cygwin?

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2006 at 04:39:26PM -0500, Joachim Martin wrote:
> I have successfully built the java bindings under cygwin.
> 
> When I run SmokeTest.java, or my own application that uses 
> xapian_jni.jar, it just hangs at the first xapian API call.
> 
> The compile went fine, but I had to copy cygxapian-13.dll into 
> java/build and rename cygxapian-jni.dll to xapian-jni.dll to get it to run.

Removing the "cyg" prefix sounds dodgy, though I'm no cygwin expert.

I wonder if you might have more success if you use -mno-cygwin
(which essentially builds for mingw).  It should work to just configure
with:

./configure CXX="g++ -mno-cygwin"

> Has anyone successfully compiled and run xapian-java under cygwin?

If they have, I've not heard about it.

Cheers,
    Olly