[KinoSearch] Can't build/install devel 0.20 on Windows (using ActivePerl 5.8)

[Marvin Humphrey]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:49:28AM -0800, hukeli wrote:

> I am interested in trying out 0.20 due to its new UTF-8 support.  But I work
> mainly on Win32.  I encountered errors while running build.bat generated
> from "perl Makefile.PL" with the following output.  First there was error
> for "stat c_src\compat".  Then, it ends with error regarding building dll
> for charmonizer.
> 
> Does anyone successfully build/install Kinosearch 0.20 on win32?  Your input
> is appreciated.

The current CPAN dev release 0.20_051, by now pretty old, does not build on
Windows.  

After a weekend of work, SVN trunk rev 4207 builds and passes its tests on
Windows Vista using both MSVC 9 and Strawberry Perl.

However, trunk is a bit messy right now, and it's not quite ready for a
release.

  * Some docs are out of date and inaccurate (e.g. the tutorials).
  * Some of the new APIs that will become public with the next release need
    tweaking.
  * Highlighter has a fairly serious bug.
  * My top priority right now is implementing a feature that
    Eventful needs -- "real time indexing", i.e. negligibly short delay
    between insertion and queryability for new records.

The best I can do for you right now is say, take your chances with trunk rev
4207.

Marvin Humphrey