I would like to use Xapian search engine with a Qt application I am developing. The compiler used is MSVC (Visual Studio 2013). As it turns out, the Xapian download page (https://xapian.org/download) which was supposed to hold the link to a set of makefiles for MSVC, are missing.
I thought maybe instead of trying too hard to get it working under MSVC, let's get MinGW + MSYS environment to build and run this guy. However, there I ran into a problem. It required zlib library.
configure: error: zlib.h not found - required for chert and glass (you may need to install zlib1g-dev or zlib-devel package)
Building zlib doesn't seem too easy, as instead of running the "configure" script right away, it suggested me to check Makefile.gcc within /win32 folder. This however wasn't the answer, it didnt really seem to do much.
$./configure
Checking for gcc…
Please use win32/Makefile.gcc instead.
I am probably doing it wrong or perhaps have hit a circle somewhere. Some help would be really appreciated. Looking forward to some insight.
My main concern is to get Xapian working on Windows.