On 9 Jan 2006, at 23:56, Sheldon Gill wrote:
Christopher Armstrong wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 05:14 +0000, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
It would be nice if someone could find a copy of libxml2 for
windows which would work with GNUstep ... then we could add
instructions for using it to the documentation in the gnustep-
make package, so that windows users could have xml parsing
support in gnustep, but at the moment I don't know how to get
any version of libxml2 for windows to link/work with the base
library.
I think have solved this one, and I have got libxml2 to compile (just
that GNUstep can't seem to find libxslt when I compile that). From
what
I can remember, it seems that libiconv2 does not export all the
required
symbols (at least not the binary versions used in our
redistributables).
You seem to just need to regenerate the .a file
Okay, I think this is what I did (looking at my bash history from
some
months ago).
Download latest libxml2 SOURCE, decompress.
cd /mingw/lib
mkdir backup-libiconv
mv libiconv.la backup-libiconv
mv libiconv.lib backup-libiconv
dlltool -D libiconv-2.dll -C -l libiconv.lib --export-all-symbols
-A ../bin/libiconv-2.dll
Now try compiling libxml2 and then gnustep-base (although gnustep-
base
wants libxslt as well).
Now libxml2 should compile. The -A switch is the clincher; the @nn
stdcall aliases is what throws gcc. This seems to get the thing to
compile, but note, I haven't tried this for a while. libxslt seems to
compile as well, but I couldn't get gnustep-base to find it.
Let us know how you go.
I have libxml2 2.6.22 compiling and linking fine in my sandbox. I
haven't yet run through enough testing to be confident of its
operation but there shouldn't be any big issues. I am using the
full libiconv from GNU-Win32 and had no problem with symbols and
linking.
I tried libxml2 2.6.3 ... and it had problems linking with libiconv.
So I followed Christopher's instructions for fixing up the libiconv
information, and then the libxml2 build worked fine.
I have therefore updated the documentation in the GNUstep make
package to tell people how to do this so they can have xml parsing
support in mingw.
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