Strigi / CLuence on win32

[Ralf Habacker]

Jos van den Oever schrieb:
> 2007/3/2, Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>:
>> Jos van den Oever schrieb:
>> > 2007/3/2, Christian Ehrlicher <Ch.Ehrlicher at gmx.de>:
>> >> Stephan Kulow schrieb:
>> >> > Am Freitag, 2. März 2007 18:45 schrieb Christian Ehrlicher:
>> >> >> Ralf Habacker schrieb:
>> >> >>> Christian Ehrlicher schrieb:
>> >> >>>> Stromek schrieb:
>> >> >> <snip>
>> >> >>
>> >> >>>> I've commented the specific subdirs out -> svn up
>> >> >>>> Sad that they introduced a new win32-incompatible lib :(
>> >> >>> a similar problem is with strigi, which is only compilable static
>> >> >>> because of missing decoration and it requires additional
>> libraries
>> >> >>> (clusence), for which no prebuild binary packages are
>> available. :-(
>> >> >> As soon as it's mandatory for kdelibs, I'll fix the decoration
>> - no
>> >> >> matter what others say about :)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Do we really need also CLucence? Is it, at least, compilable on
>> win32
>> >> > Clucene is the framwork strigi is implemented in. Strictly speaking
>> >> is strigi
>> >> > part of the workspace and might not be interesting for most KDE
>> apps
>> >> running
>> >> > on their own on windows.
>> >> >
>> >> > But it might be interesting in itself, but not necessary if it
>> makes
>> >> problems.
>> >> > Then we should rather concentrate on some way to compile KDE
>> without
>> >> it.
>> >> >
>> >> What do you want to hear? It just makes the whole process of
>> compiling
>> >> kdelibs more complicated than it's already on win32.
>> >>
>> >> CLuence is compilable on win32 with msvc, but only as static version
>> >> which is not acceptable due to various reasons.
>> >>
>> >> Strigi from current svn is not compilable (and it looks like it's
>> also
>> >> broken on linux). There seem to be some pieces of code which try to
>> >> handle win32 but it simply can't work. We need at least kdewin32
>> to get
>> >> some needed posix functions.
>> >> Strigi is also only compilable as static version ...
>> >>
>> >> -> so either the maintainers of those two libs are accepting a lot of
>> >> patches to get it work on win32 (in assumption that there are some
>> >> people who try to get it work on win32 - currently I don't see
>> someone)
>> >> and / or kdelibs/win32 must be compilable without strigi.
>> >>
>> >> Apart from this I don't know how the maintainers of strigi/CLuence
>> think
>> >> about this...
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ---> moving this thread to k-c-d because we need a solution *before*
>> >> strigi becomes a requirement for kdelibs
>> >
>> > Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Christian. Strigi and
>> > CLucene should both be compilable on windows. I've not done this for
>> > quite a while. Ben van Klinken (clucene maintainer) develops CLucene
>> > mainly on a windows machine, so I'd be surprised if there are
>> > insurmountable problems.
>> >
>> I could compile it with msvc without any problems - but only as static
>> lib which is not a good idea :)
>> > Saying that, Strigi as it is will be used for the moment, does not yet
>> > require an index. Initially, the strigi libraries will be used to
>> > extract data and metadata. Once the KFilePlugin classes have been
>> > successfully ported to the Strigi analyzers, we will shift attention
>> > to searching and then CLucene will be required because it is at the
>> > moment clearly the best index. Also it has only a few depencies.
>> >
>> > I hope to finish most of KFileMetaInfo over the weekend and send it to
>> > the list for approval. This process is probably best done over the
>> > next week. Nevertheless, I'd like to add "find_package(Strigi
>> > REQUIRED)" to kdelibs/CMakeLists.txt this Monday, without actually
>> > adding any code that requires it. This way, the number of issues
>> > popping up at once would be smaller.
>> >
>> Please mask this with an NOT WIN32 because it's impossible to get strigi
>> working on win32 until then.
>
>> Do you know someone who is interested in the win32 port of strigi? We
>> can help, but I don't think we are able to port this lib too...
>
> Is it really that hard? Can you explain what the problems are? I dont
> see how the libs can be static when I define them as SHARED. You can
> leave out CLucene for now, which means the # of deps is really small.
>
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Regards
 Ralf

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