On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:21:34 +1100, Andrew Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > I've long been interested in offline tools that make use of WikiMedia > information, particularly the English Wiktionary. > > I've recently come across a tool which can provide random access to a > bzip2 archive without decompressing it and I would like to make use > of > it in my tools but I can't get it to compile and/or function with any > free Windows compiler I have access to. It works fine on the *nix > boxes I have tried but my personal machine is a Windows XP netbook. > > The tool is "seek-bzip2" by James Taylor and is available here: > http://bitbucket.org/james_taylor/seek-bzip2 > > * The free Borland compiler won't compile it due to missing (Unix?) > header files > * lcc compiles it but it always fails with error "unexpected EOF" > * mingw compiles it if the -m64 option is removed from the Makefile > but it then has the same behaviour as the lcc build. > > My C experience is now quite stale and my 64-bit programming > experience negligible. > > (I'm also interested in hearing from other people working on offline > tools for dump files, wikitext parsing, or Wiktionary)
Have a look to the openZim project, we have launched exactly for this purpose: * free software * supported by WMF * compiles on many systems * extremly fast * use of LZMA2 (better than bzip2) * though primarily for Wikipedia content * used in many other software (like Kiwix for example) * ... http://www.openzim.org Emmanuel _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
