> From: Sean Sieger <sean.sie...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:07:51 -0400 > > Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes: > > I don't have libxml2 -- did someone actually try building the Windows > port with it? > > Though you and I discussed it, I never did. > > http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html, makes it seem complicated.
Download the latest libxml2 tarball, unpack it, and read win32/Readme.txt there. Turns out building it with MinGW is easy, there's a Windows-specific script in that subdirectory which configures the package, and it supports MinGW. I built it without any fuss, with just one minor bug encountered: I configured with the optional zlib support, and the produced Makefile used the wrong name for zlib library (libzdll, while MinGW uses libz). After fixing that in win32/Makefile, the build "just worked". It's a pity this isn't documented anywhere in the libxml2 Web pages, or we would have known that back then. Anyway, better late than never ;-)
