I've long been interested in offline tools that make use of WikiMedia
information, particularly the English Wiktionary.
I've recently come across a tool which can provide random access to a
bzip2 archive without decompressing it and I would like to make use of
it in my tools but I can't get it to compile and/or function with any
free Windows compiler I have access to. It works fine on the *nix
boxes I have tried but my personal machine is a Windows XP netbook.
The tool is "seek-bzip2" by James Taylor and is available here:
http://bitbucket.org/james_taylor/seek-bzip2
* The free Borland compiler won't compile it due to missing (Unix?) header files
* lcc compiles it but it always fails with error "unexpected EOF"
* mingw compiles it if the -m64 option is removed from the Makefile
but it then has the same behaviour as the lcc build.
My C experience is now quite stale and my 64-bit programming
experience negligible.
(I'm also interested in hearing from other people working on offline
tools for dump files, wikitext parsing, or Wiktionary)
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)