how to build Xapian project on windows?

[Eric Lindblad]

> It's close to irrelevant when they last worked at this point - the current
> stable release series is 1.4.x, and they definitely won't work with that.

acknowledged

Visual Studio 2008, win32 makefiles (from C. Hull's website)
and xapian-core-1.2.8 are mentioned together on this webpage

https://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-devel/2012-October/001883.html