Hi,
I've recently
installed HtDig under Win32 (Windows NT/2000), and like many other Win32
attempts had issues getting it all working.
I have come up with
some tips that may help anybody else out there wishing to use HtDig under Win32
- as I didn't see all of these posted anywhere.
I downloaded the
Win32 binary version of HtDig hoping for a quick & easy installation, and to
get it working I had to do the following:
- install it
into c:\htdig - as the program files are hard coded to use
c:\htdig\bin
- put the latest copy of
cygwin1.dll into c:\htdig\bin (this helped with some word sort failed
errors)
- ensure the
TMP and TEMP environment variables point to a valid temp folder, and there is
adequate free disk space
The htmerge program
requires \bin\sh.exe to be present, which is not a problem if cygwin is
installed on the system. However, if cygwin is not installed then you need
to put a copy of sh.exe into the \bin folder on the drive you wish to run it
from. Having a copy of cygwin1.dll in the bin folder helps as
well.
eg, Say you have
c:\htdig, but you have a script that runs from drive D:, you'll need to have
another copy of sh.exe & cygwin1.dll in d:\bin\ .. You can skip this if
your script changes to c:\htdig\bin when performing it's htmerge
operation.
With the above steps
taken care of your HtDig installation should now be
functional.
Hope this helps
someone out there,
For the curious: I
used a program called FileMonitor from www.sysinternals.com (handy Win32
tools). I had it running while I ran the htmerge program and it tracked any file
usage, and I noticed it tried accessing sh.exe - which wasn't present on a
non-cygwin system, bingo :) Basically I had 2 environments to test it on, one
with cygwin, the other without, and I wanted to have the simplest setup without
requiring a full cygwin install.
Joe Cotroneo
Analyst Programmer
Swish Group Limited
http://www.swish.com.au
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3 9211 5460
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