how to build Xapian project on windows?

[Eric Lindblad]

> Those nmake files have been without a maintainer since about 2011, so
> it's not a big surprise that they don't work without a few tweaks at
> this point.

> Nobody seems interested in keeping the nmake files up to date, so it's
> probably time we just removed them.

I think formerly it was listed on the Xapian website which was the last version of xapian-core known to compile with nmake.exe; I don't recall presently if that was listed as 1.2.8 or 1.2.12.

If there are no objections maybe I'll place the nmake files in a repository here.

https://github.com/nurmi-labs