Added libstemmer as a package

[thewchan]

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[github-actions]

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[xhochy]

Ouch. I took a look at the Makefile and this is not a simple recipe to do your first C(++) package :(

[thewchan]

@xhochy @conda-forge/help-c-cpp First time doing a C package, I think it's a simple one because the build is based on this makefile that's already include in the distro. However win build isn't working, I think because it doesn't recognize the ar command? There's probably some m2w64 version of this right?

[thewchan]

@xhochy is this even working for linux and osx? I pretty much just ran the make file

[thewchan]

@xhochy FWIW, here's the content of that makefile:

include mkinc.mak
ifeq ($(OS),Windows_NT)
EXEEXT=.exe
endif
CFLAGS=-O2
CPPFLAGS=-Iinclude
all: libstemmer.a stemwords$(EXEEXT)
libstemmer.a: $(snowball_sources:.c=.o)
	$(AR) -cru $@ $^
stemwords$(EXEEXT): examples/stemwords.o libstemmer.a
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^
clean:
	rm -f stemwords$(EXEEXT) libstemmer.a *.o src_c/*.o examples/*.o runtime/*.o libstemmer/*.o

[xhochy]

This makefile isn't installing anything. To make this work, you basically need to rewrite it from scratch.

[thewchan]

I guess the makefile is just compiling it and putting them into an archive...

[thewchan]

I'm checking this out and trying to get up to speed... https://conda.org/blog/2023-05-18-how-to-use-conda-build/

[thewchan]

it looks like the makefile did successfully compiled everything and put it into a .a file, right? I can maybe reference the makefile and modify it into something that's compiling it into a shared library?

[xhochy]

I'm checking this out and trying to get up to speed... https://conda.org/blog/2023-05-18-how-to-use-conda-build/

Eventhough it looks official, it is not the best reference (e.g. please don't use the GCC package).

[thewchan]

@xhochy yeah I caught that will stick with jinja variable for compiler. I'm just not familiar with C myself to know how to make this build a shared library