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there used to be binary distributions on the net (here: http://code.google.com/p/pylucene-win32-binary/ - however it's out-of-date).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? 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
