[Xapian-discuss] cygwin python binding build error

[Charlie Hull]

Matt Chen wrote:
> hey,
> 
> i'm trying to build xapian python-binding in cygwin, but i got some
> errors message like this:
> 
> *** Warning: This system can not link to static lib archive
> /opt/xapian/lib/libxapian.la.
> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
> *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have.
> *** But as you try to build a module library, libtool will still create
> *** a static module, that should work as long as the dlopening application
> *** is linked with the -dlopen flag to resolve symbols at runtime.
> ar cru .libs/_xapian.a .libs/xapian_wrap.o
> ranlib .libs/_xapian.a
> creating _xapian.la
> (cd .libs && rm -f _xapian.la && ln -s ../_xapian.la _xapian.la)
> cp `test -f modern/xapian.py || echo './'`modern/xapian.py .
> /bin/sh ../libtool  --config > libtoolconfig.tmp
> . ./libtoolconfig.tmp; cp $objdir/_xapian.dll .
> cp: cannot stat `.libs/_xapian.dll': No such file or directory
> make[4]: *** [_xapian.dll] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/xapian-bindings-1.0.10/python'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/xapian-bindings-1.0.10/python'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/xapian-bindings-1.0.10/python'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/xapian-bindings-1.0.10'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> 
> does anyone know what the problem is ? thank you.

Have you already built Xapian itself? I'm not so familiar with Cygwin, 
but with the Win32 Visual C++ makefiles you have to build Xapian before 
you build the bindings to Xapian.

Charlie

> 
> 
> Matt
> 
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