Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> writes:
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 ;-)
Thank you, Eli. Yes, when I replied to your post, I thought that that
should be my next move---get the sources and find the juju I need. I'll
try to get libxml2 support into the build soon.
Another improvement at the top of my list is spelling. I looked into
Hunspell again recently, and its source distribution makes a passing
reference to compilation with the Windows SDK (and hence, .NET 4.0) but
I didn't do well for not having used that stuff in almost twenty years.
The (Windows) abyss makes me shudder. Something about needing to convert
from a .vcproj (?) to a .msproj (?).
