Pavel - Thanks for your reply.
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:12 PM, pavel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-01-08 at 10:24 -0500, K. Frank wrote: > >> Great. If I end up needing libxml2, I'll plan to build it myself. >> >> Do you happen to know if I should expect the build to be >> totally straightforward (with mingw-w64)? Any gotcha's or >> dependencies I should be expecting? > > I have cross-compiled libxml2 from Debian recently without any issues. > I've used Ruben's personal build and compiled zlib, libffi, libiconv and > libxml2 in this order. I am not sure whether libffi and libiconv is > required by libxml, I needed them for some other stuff. That's good to know. It sounds like it should be possible for me to use the libxml2 approach, if need be. > zlib cannot be configured for cross-compilation (or at least I heven't > managed that), Makefile.gcc should be used instead for direct > compilation. I can attach the whole script for compilation, if it helps. > > libffi, libiconv and libxml2 can be easily configured with the > following: > > ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 \ > --build=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu \ > --prefix=/home/pavel/Programs/local32 > > It works the same for 64bit Windows with -host=x64_86-w64-mingw32 > > HTH, Pavel Yes, thanks. I will keep this in mind when I return to libxml2. K. Frank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master SQL Server Development, Administration, T-SQL, SSAS, SSIS, SSRS and more. Get SQL Server skills now (including 2012) with LearnDevNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only - learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122512 _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
