With Andi's advise (thanks Andi) got a little further building PyLucence 2.4.1-1 on cygwin windows, but build is complaining about missing build.xml in one of the subdirectories. Successful build and install of JCC2.2 on cygwin was an accomplishment in itself. Goal is to get PyLucene built for cygwin platform and share with all. Does JCC2.3 make a difference in building PyLucence 2.4.1-1? if JCC2.3 is available for download someplace without using svn - I will do it. But I could not find a regular separate downloadable JCC2.3 anywhere.
$ make cd lucene-java-2.4.1; ant -Dversion=2.4.1 Buildfile: build.xml jar.core-check: compile-demo: [mkdir] Created dir: c:\Edwin\Download\python\pylucene-2.4.1-1\lucene-java-2.4.1\build\classes\demo [javac] Compiling 17 source files to c:\Edwin\Download\python\pylucene-2.4.1-1\lucene-java-2.4.1\build\classes\demo BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 second cd lucene-java-2.4.1/contrib/snowball; ant -Dversion=2.4.1 Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed make: *** [lucene-java-2.4.1/build/contrib/snowball/lucene-snowball-2.4.1.jar] Error 1 Since I do not have the luxury of using SVN, I manually download lucene-2.4.1.tar.gz and expand it into lucene-java-2.4.1.tar.gz under pylucene-2.4.1-1 directory. With little tweaking of Makefile, found build files missing in 6 following directories. $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/snowball $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/highlighter $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/analyzers $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/regex $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/queries $(LUCENE)/build/contrib/instantiated my steps: # download pylucene-2.4.1-1-src.tar.gz & lucene-2.4.1.tar.gz $ tar -xvzf pylucene-2.4.1-1-src.tar.gz $ cd pylucene-2.4.1-1 $ tar -xvzf ../lucene-2.4.1.tar.gz $ mv lucene-2.4.1/ lucene-java-2.4.1/ #edit Makefile, add following variables for cygwin platform and then run make. PREFIX_PYTHON=/usr ANT=ant PYTHON=$(PREFIX_PYTHON)/bin/python JCC=$(PYTHON) -m jcc --shared NUM_FILES=2 Am I missing something trivial OR do I need to create build.xml files by hand (I did not think so) in these directories ? if so a sample or example would be help. any suggestions or ideas please. thanks in advance Edwin The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you.