Hi Brion,

thank you for your answer.

indicate. If you are having trouble getting files out of CVS, this software IS NOT READY for you and you should not attempt to use it.

I am a software engineer and I know how to use CVS. I have a running tortoise CVS installation at home. We use PVCS at work and I'm also familiar with clearquest. So I know what a versioning system is. Unfortunately the IP traffic of CVS is blocked by our company's firewall.

I were able to compile most of the modules with Visual Studio .NET 2003. But I still have some problems.

I need a wiki for my department at work. I've set one up basing on mediawiki. Unfortunately the mediawiki's own search functions are not strong enough. I need a full text search with substrings and wildcards. If you discourage me to use mwsearch, how can I have such a fulltext search with wildcards in combination with mediawiki?

Greetings Markus

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] Im Auftrag von Brion Vibber Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. September 2005 09:41 An: Wikimedia developers Betreff: Re: [Wikitech-l] How to build mwsearch under windows XP?

Markus.Herb@de.TRUMPF.com wrote:

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i've allready asked the following questions. But the topic of the other thread doesn't fit anymore.

I've downloaded the nightly tarball since my company's

firewall doesn't

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allow me to use a CVS client. I found out that the sourcefiles had added a ",v" to each

extension like

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cs,v and also contained some versioning info. So I renamed them and deleted the versioning info.

This is not a supported or end-user ready product; you should probably not attempt to use it unless you know a lot more about it than you indicate. If you are having trouble getting files out of CVS, this software IS NOT READY for you and you should not attempt to use it.

If you need to get the source, you should use a CVS client -- the CVS repository snapshots are copies of the *repository* itself, not of the current contents. You can google up documentation on various CVS clients for Windows easily enough.

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I have also searched for the libraries and copied them into \wikipedia\mwsearch\libs\ I've downloaded and installed mono. But now I don't know how to compile it. The sources ought

to be builded

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with monodevelop.

There is a Makefile, which should work with GNU make. It is designed to run on Linux/Unix and there is no support for Windows. If you have difficulty writing an alternate build script, this software IS NOT READY FOR YOU.

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Since I'm using Windows XP, I don't know how to proceed.

The search code in its current state is not a supported product, and I recommend against trying to use it as is, particularly if you're uncertain what to do with the code. There is no known support for running on Windows (it might work, god knows; never been tested).

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I really want this Wikipedia search engine up and running.

Unless you know what you are doing and are working on developing the lucene search engine itself, I strongly recommend you use MediaWiki's built-in search that uses MySQL's fulltext search engine.

This is not a supported or complete product. It is not ready for third-party use. It's barely ready for our own use. There are known serious problems with the updater. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE IT.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)