Adi Oanca (adi...@gmail.com)

Hi,

   I just compiled xapian with MinGW.

   I could send you the files.

Regards,
Adi.

Hi Olly,

> Did you read "USAGE.txt" in the zlib.net download? Particularly point
> 2/2':

   Hehe, of course not. :)


Thanks,
Adi.

Hi,

   Must say another thing here (to stay in the archives, maybe someone
else will have the same problem), as I only did a "make check" before
writing my previous mail.

   By getting zlib from zlib.net, only xapian's static library is
buit, because "libzlib.dll.a"(../configure finds -lzlib) is not found
for linking the xapian DLL.
   So, you must download zlib-1.2.3-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2 from MinGW
website, compile and install the library.
   Then, after another '../configure' and 'make' the Xapian DLL will be built.

Hope this may help someone.

Regards,
Adi.

Hi,

   I got this issue nailed out. :-D

   The problem was with the zlib package offered by MinGW.

   _Never_ use zlib-1.2.3-MSYS-1.0.11.tar.bz2 package, _it's broken_!

   Instead, download the pre-compiled version of zlib from zlib.net,
and use that to build Xapian with MinGW on Windows.


Regards,
Adi.

Hi,

> > > What does the "garbage" backtrace look like?
> >
> > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> > 0x7106505a in strsep () from D:\mingw\msys\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0 0x7106505a in strsep () from D:\mingw\msys\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> > #1 0x710315c5 in msys-1!calloc () from D:\mingw\msys\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> > #2 0x71098644 in msys-1!_ctype_ () from D:\mingw\msys\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> > #3 0x710a574c in msys-1!__ctype_ptr () from D:\mingw\msys\bin\msys-1.0.dll
> > #4 0x7c926ac8 in ntdll!iswdigit () from C:\WINXP\system32\ntdll.dll
> > #5  0xffffffff in ?? ()
>
> Hmm, I wonder if we've called a method on a NULL object pointer here...

   I think I have look at parameters yesterday, none of them was NULL.
   I'll double-check.

> > > And does "make check" in the built xapian-core source tree pass?

The result is:

$ make check-TESTS
Running test '' under ./btreetest.exe
FAIL: btreetest.exe
Running test '' under ./quartztest.exe
FAIL: quartztest.exe
Running test '' under ./apitest.exe
FAIL: apitest.exe
Running test '' under ./internaltest.exe
FAIL: internaltest.exe
Running test '' under ./stemtest.exe
FAIL: stemtest.exe
Running test '' under ./queryparsertest.exe
FAIL: queryparsertest.exe
Running test '' under ./termgentest.exe
FAIL: termgentest.exe
===================
7 of 7 tests failed
===================
make: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1


Thanks,
Adi.