On Mar 9, 2010, at 20:18, Roman Chyla <roman.ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
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?
Yes, unless someone writes something else for windows.
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.
Right.
This naturally brings us to the practical problem: it can be done, but
somebody has to DO IT, right? ;-)
Exactly.
What would you think about scons?
http://www.scons.org/
I'm not near my computer this week so I can't take a look at this now
but, in principle, if a windows user came forward with a better build
solution for windows (or better yet, in general) and is prepared to
maintain it, that would be a big plus.
Andi..
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it's out-of-date).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
