From ddebd91df13ef3d89fab99630297bcb2f7b68247 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olly Betts Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2018 23:55:43 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] Update INSTALL regarding 64-bit MSVC compilation Now works with MSVS 2017. --- xapian-core/INSTALL | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/xapian-core/INSTALL b/xapian-core/INSTALL index e4a72308d..0c820eb13 100644 --- a/xapian-core/INSTALL +++ b/xapian-core/INSTALL @@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ MSVC If you're using MS Visual C++, you'll need at least MSVS 2015 for C++11 support. -As of 1.4.6 building using MSVC is supported by the autotools build system. -You need to install a set of Unix-like tools first - we recommended MSYS2: -https://www.msys2.org/ +As of Xapian 1.4.6 building using MSVC is supported by the autotools build +system. You need to install a set of Unix-like tools first - we recommended +MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/ Then from a bash shell run configure like so:: @@ -69,9 +69,8 @@ You'll need to have the zlib library available. You can also specify ``CPPFLAGS=-I/path/to/zlib LDFLAGS=-L/path/to/zlib`` to tell MSVC where to find the zlib headers and library. -We support 64-bit compilation, but with MSVC you currently need to disable -the remote backend (which also disables replication) - to do this add -``--disable-remote-backend`` to your configure command. +We support 64-bit compilation with MSVS 2017. With MSVS 2015 a 64-bit build +fails to work - we haven't investigated why. HP's aCC -------- -- 2.11.4.GIT