[Xapian-discuss] Fail compiling Ruby bindings Windows MinGW RubyInstaller 1.9.3

[Denis, Alexis]

Hello,

I am trying to compile xapian, omega and xapian Ruby bindings 1.2.17 on Windows using the MinGW environment and Ruby 1.9.3 (installed using the Ruby installer). The Win32 files are not an option because Ruby is compiled with MinGW as of 1.9 version. Xapian compiles out of the box. Omega is giving me some grief about unixperm.cxx. The ruby bindings simply don't link the so file. I tried to link it with libmsvcrt-ruby191-static.a and it linked but it failed to load with a memory error (during require 'xapian').

Link errors:
libtool: link: g++ -shared -nostdlib ..../lib/dllcrt2.o ..../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/crtbegin.o .libs/xapian_wrap.o   /usr/local/lib/libxapian.dll.a -lz -lws2_32 -lrpcrt4 -lstdc++ -L..../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2 -L..../lib/gcc -L..../mingw32/lib -L..../lib -lstdc++ -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt -luser32 -lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lmingw32 -lgcc -lmoldname -lmingwex -lmsvcrt ..../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.5.2/crtend.o  -O2 -Wl,--enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc   -o .libs/_xapian.so -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/_xapian.dll.a

.libs/xapian_wrap.o: In function `SWIG_Ruby_ErrorType':
....\xapian\xapian-bindings-1.2.17\ruby/xapian_wrap.cc:1098: undefined reference to `rb_eRuntimeError'
....\xapian\xapian-bindings-1.2.17\ruby/xapian_wrap.cc:1065: undefined reference to `rb_eIndexError'
.....


Alexis