Can't build SWIG on Windows, thus can't build bindings

[charlie]

We can't successfully build the imported version of SWIG on a Windows system using MSYS. Following the instructions at http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Windows.html#swig_exe causes a bug just like this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.swig.devel/17218

The workaround is to import the generated files from another system with a working SWIG (for example, xapian-bindings/python/modern).

[olly]

Is your SVN tree under a directory containing a space character? That's not supported.

If not, check the end of line characters in the generated file config.status. The shell might not be happy with CR+LF, so if it has CR strip them out and see if that works, e.g. using:

perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' config.status

If that's the issue, we can probably address it.

[olly]

Does this tip help?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.swig.devel/17467

Not doing that would probably lead to config.status containing carriage returns, with the symptoms you suggest.

[olly]

This is probably now fixed in Xapian SVN (r9346). Can you try that?

[olly]

Ping!

I believe that this should work with the version of SWIG which Xapian's SVN now pulls in. Charlie: can you confirm?

[charlie]

Yes, I can now build Swig successfully (sorry for the delay, busy with other things). However I still haven't verified I can build the bindings; I'll try tomorrow and if so close the bug.

[charlie]

Bindings now build successfully on Windows using the supplied SWIG.