Hi, I would also like to thank to Andi (and others?) for the great tool and the samples, it is really excellent. I am using MSVC7.1 on win xp, it builds fine, but it was quite difficult at the beginning (especially, because I tried with mingw before falling back to msvc).
And indeed, is gnu make indispensable? In some previous posts it was said that Ant is not an option (makes Python programmers scream and run away) and 'make' is there because nobody provided something else. This naturally brings us to the practical problem: it can be done, but somebody has to DO IT, right? ;-) What would you think about scons? http://www.scons.org/ roman On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Andi Vajda <va...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mar 9, 2010, at 13:13, "Thomas Koch" <k...@orbiteam.de> wrote: > >> Dear PyLucene-fans, >> >> I just managed to build pylucene-2.9.1-1 on Windows with Python 2.6 and >> Java >> 1.6 and like to tell my 'story' - just in case anyone else runs into >> similar >> problems... >> >> First I should mention that I'm using PyLucene for quite a while now - >> just >> never needed to build it on windows - there used to be binary >> distributions >> on the net (here: http://code.google.com/p/pylucene-win32-binary/ - >> however >> it's out-of-date). Also I am a bit familiar with Makefiles, Ant and other >> toolchains... >> >> Next it should be said that not only PyLucene is great piece of software >> but >> also Documentation (and samples / test-suite) is very well maintained. >> >> The only thing that's missing from my point of view is clear advise on >> requirements for building PyLucene on specific platforms. Maybe that's >> also >> the cause of the trouble I had in building it ... I knew I need a C++ >> compiler, ANT, Java and Python. Also as Makefile is used some kind of >> make-utitilty would be needed. So here's the setup I've choosen: >> >> - Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) >> - Java 1.6 (jdk1.6.0_06) >> - compiler: MS-Visual-Studio9 (Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition) >> - mingw32-make from MinGW-5.1.6 - see http://www.mingw.org/ >> (GNU Make 3.81 built for i386-pc-mingw32) >> - ANT 1.8.0 >> - pylucene-2.9.1-1 / lucene-java-2.9.1 >> - Windows7 >> >> The building of JCC was no problem. The first issues came up when entering >> the make-toolchain: apparently there are some differences on Windows that >> either my windows binary GNU make couldn't handle very well or need to be >> fixed for windows anyway... >> >> This especially holds for path separators and command separators. For >> example I had to change >> >> >> $(LUCENE_JAR): $(LUCENE) >> cd $(LUCENE) ; $(ANT) -Dversion=$(LUCENE_VER) >> to >> $(LUCENE_JAR): $(LUCENE) >> cd $(LUCENE) && $(ANT) -Dversion=$(LUCENE_VER) >> >> (took me a while to figure this out ,-) >> >> PYLUCENE:=$(shell pwd) >> to >> PYLUCENE:=$(shell cd) >> >> BUILD_TEST:=$(PYLUCENE)/build/test >> to >> BUILD_TEST:=$(PYLUCENE)\build\test >> >> (note: cd may work with "/" but when it comes to mkdir this fails - e.h. >> mingw32-make test >> mkdir -p pylucene-2.9.1-1/build/test >> Syntaxfehler. >> mingw32-make: *** [install-test] Error 1 >> ) >> >> >> Finally herer are my Makefile settings: >> >> # Windows (Win32, Python 2.6, Java 1.6, ant 1.8) >> SHELL=cmd.exe >> PYLUCENE:=$(shell cd) >> ANT=F:\devel\apache-ant-1.8.0\bin\ant >> JAVA_HOME=C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_06 >> PREFIX_PYTHON=C:\\Python26 >> PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)\python.exe >> JCC=$(PYTHON) -m jcc.__main__ >> NUM_FILES=3 >> >> >> So either I've choosen the wrong tools or there should be others with >> similar problems. If my toolchain is wrong or unsupported please advise. >> Is >> it recommended/required to use Cygwin on Windows? > > Yes, cygwin is required so that you have a functional gnu make. > Note that you still need to use a MS compiler or mingw, which some people > have been able to use. > > I test build pylucene every now and then on an old win2k system with cygwin > (for make and shell) and msvc 7.1. Not a setup with the most recent software > but that's all I've got for windows. > > Andi.. > >> >> If anyone is interested I can offer to >> - post my adapted Makefile here (or on the web) >> - provide binary version of PyLucene (on the web) >> >> Finally some suggestion: wouldn't it be possible to skip the Makefile >> completely? I'm not that familiar with ANT but know it has been developed >> to >> provide platform independant built processes - and it includes shell-tasks >> for anything that is not java... (I know this could be some work, just >> wanted to know if this question has been raised before or if this is a >> no-go >> option ?) >> >> best regards >> >> Thomas Koch >> -- >> OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG >> Endenicher Allee 35 >> 53121 Bonn Germany >> i...@orbiteam.de >> http://www.orbiteam.de >> >> >> >
