Re: Indexing macros

[John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Monday 02 December 2002 16:51, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>
> concerning xindy: where can i find a windows version (there hangs
> only some old dos stuff and all kind fo unix stuff around)
>
> Hans
>

As you may already know, it comes in compiled versions for various
*nix platforms, OS2, and MDOS. There is also a source code file which
can theoretically be compiled wherever a Clisp compiler exists. But
there are problems with this in a modern environment. 

Here is a quote from somebody who has walked down that path:
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It's a PITA to create xindy from sources. Reasons are IMO
 -- It wasn't written for current CLISP.
 -- Usage of external shared libraries (in particular, GNU regex)
    complicates the build process. Their usage made sense at the time
    when xindy was created but they could be replaced with more
    portable Common Lisp code that we didn't know then.
 -- Too many other non-usual tools are needed for its compilation
    (e.g., noweb) that are not part of the xindy distribution.
 -- Too much manual intervention is needed. It doesn't work as
    "./configure; make; make install".

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