Ferret Win32 Gem for windows users

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Hi and thanks for Ferret!

I’m wondering if it would be possible to create a Ferret Win32 gem which
includes the c performance code pre-compiled for those of us without a C
compiler handy ?

Zed S. seems to have cracked this particular nut with his Mongrel
Win32 gem.

Alternately, is there a zip of the Win32 .so Ferret needs that I could
download and manually install?

Kind Regards

Neville B.

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On 6/5/06, Neville B. [email protected] wrote:

Hi and thanks for Ferret!

I’m wondering if it would be possible to create a Ferret Win32 gem which
includes the c performance code pre-compiled for those of us without a C
compiler handy ?

Unfortunately not yet. Alex Y. may be working on it. The problem is
that Ferret currently doesn’t compile under Visual C 6 so there is
some porting that needs to be done. I’ve started an experimental
version of Ferret fresh (with non-lucene-compatible changes) and am
compiling it under VC6 as I go so once that is finished there will
definitely be a windows version of Ferret. This could take a while.
Also, the Lucy project will definitely be designed to work under VC6
so a windows version of Ferret is coming. It’s just hard to say when.

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David B. wrote:

Unfortunately not yet. Alex Y. may be working on it. The problem is
that Ferret currently doesn’t compile under Visual C 6 so there is
some porting that needs to be done.

Indeed I am. Or shall be this week. I’ll be trying for something on
Friday at the latest, but I can’t promise that what I come up with will
be useful to anyone but me… I will report back either way, though.

–
Alex

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Anatol P. wrote:

be useful to anyone but me… I will report back either way, though.

Bah. Last week ran away with me, and I didn’t get a chance to finish
off what I was doing in the end. Watch this space…

Probably compiling using MinGW would be choise?? AFAIK it is much more
compatible with gcc (it uses ported gcc). I am not sure how it would
work with ruby-core that compiled using MSVC, but… have a try…

That’s the problem - Ferret compiled under MinGW isn’t compatible with
the OCI ruby.

As it stands, I’m recompiling ruby under MinGW, and then attacking the
extensions. The medium-term goal is to be able to give some pointers to
Curt H. et al (should they need them - I’m sure they’ve got it in
hand) to be able to replace the MSVC build with a MinGW build in the
One-Click Installer.

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Alex Y. wrote:

Alex Y. wrote:

Unfortunately not yet. Alex Y. may be working on it. The problem is
that Ferret currently doesn’t compile under Visual C 6 so there is
some porting that needs to be done.

Indeed I am. Or shall be this week. I’ll be trying for something on
Friday at the latest, but I can’t promise that what I come up with will
be useful to anyone but me… I will report back either way, though.

Bah. Last week ran away with me, and I didn’t get a chance to finish
off what I was doing in the end. Watch this space…

Probably compiling using MinGW would be choise?? AFAIK it is much more
compatible with gcc (it uses ported gcc). I am not sure how it would
work with ruby-core that compiled using MSVC, but… have a try…

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Alex Y. wrote:

Unfortunately not yet. Alex Y. may be working on it. The problem is
that Ferret currently doesn’t compile under Visual C 6 so there is
some porting that needs to be done.

Indeed I am. Or shall be this week. I’ll be trying for something on
Friday at the latest, but I can’t promise that what I come up with will
be useful to anyone but me… I will report back either way, though.

Bah. Last week ran away with me, and I didn’t get a chance to finish
off what I was doing in the end. Watch this space…

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+1 I always wander why for Ruby used NSVC and not MinGW. MinGW much
better for multiplatform apps. i.e. Postgres project uses MinGW for
building Windows version of its product - and they have no problem. Why
Ruby community stucked on MSVC then??

Alex Y. wrote:

As it stands, I’m recompiling ruby under MinGW, and then attacking the
extensions. The medium-term goal is to be able to give some pointers to
Curt H. et al (should they need them - I’m sure they’ve got it in
hand) to be able to replace the MSVC build with a MinGW build in the
One-Click Installer.