[htdig-dev] Native Windows Port of htdig

[Neal R. <ne...@ri...>]

Hey,
	So we're working on a native windows port of HtDig...

Using the cygwin environment  and the 'mingw' too-chain an headers files.

Basically MinGW is an attempt to fashion a set of native windows
libraries, and headers that expose the functions  in CRTDLL.DLL,
MSVCRT.DLL and let you use the gcc/g++ tools to compile native windows
programs and DLLs.

I have it compiling... minimal changes in the db, htlib, htnet, htcommon,
htword directories.  Larger changes in the htserach & htdig directories
(Native windows does not have POSIX signals).

Here's the problem we are having... the code in the htdig-xxx/db dir is
behaving differently.

Specifically htdig produces database files that report an error upon
loading 

"filesize not a multiple of pagesize"

The execs produce db.xxx files that can by 'one byte' off in size in
comparison to cygwin or linux binaries.

So here's the question.  Does anyone know why the BDB code would behave
differently in native windows?

we're currently working on makefiles to use native microsoft compilers...

Thanks!

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Neal Richter 
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