Hi Brion, thank you for your answer. 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(a)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(a)de.TRUMPF.com wrote: > > 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 > > allow me to use a CVS client. > > I found out that the sourcefiles had added a ",v" to each > extension like > > 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 > > 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. > > > 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 > > 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. > > > 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). > > > 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) >