[Xapian-discuss] Can't get xapian-core 1.05 to build under windows xp

[Jarrod Roberson]

Ok so I thought maybe that the path with all the spaces might be causing
problems.
so I moved it to a shorter path without any spaces and now I get this.

C:\TMP\xapian-core-1.0.5\win32>nmake

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.9782.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

Building Xapian on Win32

        if not exist C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe exit(1)
        copy config.h.win32 ..\config.h
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_api.mak ..\api\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends.mak ..\backends\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends_flint.mak ..\backends\flint\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends_inmemory.mak ..\backends\inmemory\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends_multi.mak ..\backends\multi\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends_remote.mak ..\backends\remote\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_backends_quartz.mak ..\backends\quartz\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_bin.mak ..\bin\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_common.mak ..\common\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_examples.mak ..\examples\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_expand.mak ..\expand\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_languages_compiler.mak ..\languages\compiler\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_languages.mak ..\languages\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_matcher.mak ..\matcher\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_net.mak ..\net\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_unicode.mak ..\unicode\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_queryparser.mak ..\queryparser\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_tests.mak ..\tests\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        copy  win32_testsuite.mak ..\tests\harness\Makefile
        1 file(s) copied.
        if exist ..\..\xapian-bindings-1.0.5 copy ..\..\xapian-
bindings-1.0.5\xapian-version.h.in ..\..\xapian-bindings-
1.0.5\xapian-version.h
        if exist ..\..\xapian-bindings-1.0.5 copy win32_bindings_python.mak
..\..\xapian-bindings-1.0.5\python\Makefile
        if not exist ..\..\xapian-bindings-1.0.5\python\doccomments.i copy
doccomments.i ..\..\xapian-bindings-1.0.5\pyt
hon
The system cannot find the path specified.
        0 file(s) copied.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'if' : return code '0x1'
Stop.

C:\TMP\xapian-core-1.0.5\win32>