On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:53:45PM -0700, Marvin Humphrey wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:58:29PM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> > I have tried to build it under Windows XP, using Perl 5.10.1 and Visual
> > Studio 6 but it gave the error below on `perl build` phase.
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> Charmonizer doesn't think this system provides large file support, because it
> hasn't found a combination of commands that make the function S_probe_off64()
> in charmonizer/src/Charmonizer/Probe/LargeFiles.c pass.
>
> This combination generally works for MSVC:
>
> { "", "fopen", "_ftelli64", "_fseeki64", "__int64" },
>
> However, some web research indicates that _ftelli64 and _fseeki64 were
> introduced later and are not in VS6. For large file support under VS6, you
> need to use _lseeki64, which operates on file descriptors rather than C89
> FILE* streams.
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa298446%28v=vs.60%29.aspx
>
> This approach is actually feasible for Lucy, since we switched from FILE* to
> file descriptors a long time ago. It will just take some rejiggering of
> LargeFiles.c so that we don't depend on there being some form of fseek/ftell
> when defining off64_t.
The large-files probing fix now been implemented on trunk:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCY-178
Discriminate between stdio and POSIX in large file support probing.
Octavian, if you have the chance to try svn trunk with Visual Studio 6, that
would be helpful.
https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/lucy/trunk/
Marvin Humphrey
