On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Sisyphus <[email protected]> wrote:
> Reposting to list - last message blocked.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ozkan Sezer"
>
>>> These issues should be fixed in libxml2-2.7.8, please try
>>> it, instead.
>>>
>>> --
>>> O.S.
>>>
>>
>> Or, if you insist on using 2.7.7, see this bugzilla entry:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614087
>
> Thanks O.S.
>
> No objection to switching to 2.7.8 - I would have done that anyway had I
> been aware of its existence (and I'm not really sure how I missed noticing
> it).
>
> Anyway, 2.7.8 takes care of the zlib problem but not the -lws2_32 issue ....
> so I'm still only getting a static build which, ironically, fails to define
> all symbols (such as '_imp__xmlFree', for obvious reasons).
>
> Here's the relevant section of output:
>
> ##################################
> *** Warning: linker path does not have real file for library -lws2_32.
> *** I have the capability to make that library automatically link in when
> *** you link to this library.  But I can only do this if you have a
> *** shared version of the library, which you do not appear to have
> *** because I did check the linker path looking for a file starting
> *** with libws2_32 and none of the candidates passed a file format test
> *** using a file magic. Last file checked: /c/Windows/system32/libws2_32.dll
> *** The inter-library dependencies that have been dropped here will be
> *** automatically added whenever a program is linked with this library
> *** or is declared to -dlopen it.
>
> *** Since this library must not contain undefined symbols,
> *** because either the platform does not support them or
> *** it was explicitly requested with -no-undefined,
> *** libtool will only create a static version of it.
> libtool: link: x86_64-w64-mingw32-ar cru ......
> ##################################
>
> What needs to be done here ?
>
> Btw, that "Last file checked" (ie  /c/Windows/system32/libws2_32.dll)
> doesn't even exist.
>

Well, sorry that I responded without trying to compile myself.
This seems like another libtool screwup to me.  Pinging for
autotools/libtool gurus out there please?


> With these 64-bit libraries, should they load the System32 dll's, or should
> they load the SysWOW64 dll's ? (Or doesn't it matter ?)
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

--
O.S.

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