See INSTALL for instructions on configuring, building, and installing this
software.  See TODO for the to-do list.  See HACKING for information relevant
to anyone wanting to do development work on the bindings.

Supported Platforms
-------------------

Most development work has been done on Linux with GCC, but the bindings should
work on other Unix-like platforms and with other compilers (we've heard success
stories for at least Mac OS X and OpenBSD, and the tinderbox builds pass "make
check" on FreeBSD and NetBSD).

The Python bindings have been successfully built on Microsoft Windows using
Mingw and MSVC: the PHP bindings have been successfully build on Microsoft
Windows using MSVC.  The other bindings may need a few build tweaks to work
- contact us via the mailing lists if you want to get them working.

Supported Languages
-------------------

Bindings for the following languages should be fully functional and ready
for real world use:

Java		Java bindings (built using JNI) contributed by Eric B. Ridge.
		See java/README for Java binding specific information.

Perl		Perl XS bindings contributed by Alex Bowley and co-maintained
	        by Olly Betts are available from CPAN (module Search::Xapian).

PHP		Requires PHP 4 or 5.

Python		Requires Python 2.2 or later.  Python 3 probably won't be
		supported by 1.0.x, but will by 1.1.x.  Note that you need to
		configure Apache's mod_python or mod_wsgi correctly to avoid
		deadlocks when using Xapian's Python bindings - be sure to read
		the "Apache and mod_python/mod_wsgi" section of the Python
		bindings documentation.

Ruby		Requires Ruby 1.8 or later.  With Ruby 1.9.0, the testsuite
		fails due to a bug in the test/unit module, but applications
		using the bindings should work fine.  With Ruby 1.9.1, the
		testsuite passes.

Tcl		Requires Tcl 8.1 or later (Tcl 8.0 could be made to work
		without too much work, but versions 8.3 and earlier are no
		longer supported by the Tcl developers, so it doesn't make
		sense for us to expend effort to support them).

C#		Tested with Mono C# 1.0.8 and 1.1.8 and Portable.NET 0.6.12.
		Also tested with Mono C# 1.2.3.1 - note that for Mono
		runtimes from 1.2 onwards, you need to compile with gmcs
		(instead of mcs) or you'll get segmentation faults at runtime.
		The configure script prefers to use gmcs if it is present, but
		you can run `./configure CSC=mcs' to force use of mcs even
		if gmcs is also installed.


If you're interest in getting other languages supported, see the "Adding
support for other programming languages" section in the file HACKING.
