Re: [xml] libxml2-2.7.8 and MinGW

2011-12-06 Thread Earnie
Earnie wrote: Roumen Petrov wrote: Earnie wrote: Earnie wrote: Roumen Petrov wrote: Earnie wrote: Earnie wrote: I've been building libxml2-2.7.8 and have been having a heck of a time getting xmlcatalog to work with a shared DLL library. I've finally confirmed that the issue is caused by

Re: [xml] compile libxml2.7.8 under cygwinWin7 with mingw toolchain

2011-12-06 Thread Earnie
lin hong wrote: Hi, all we are making a release of our software with libxml under windows. we end up compiling it from source code, I thought it might worth writing it down here. first thing is, if you don't care about dependency of cygwin libraries (which means the program require

Re: [xml] compile libxml2.7.8 under cygwinWin7 with mingw toolchain

2011-12-06 Thread lin hong
lin hong wrote: Hi, all we are making a release of our software with libxml under windows. we end up compiling it from source code, I thought it might worth writing it down here. first thing is, if you don't care about dependency of cygwin libraries (which means the program require

Re: [xml] compile libxml2.7.8 under cygwinWin7 with mingw toolchain

2011-12-06 Thread Michael Ludwig
lin hong schrieb am 06.12.2011 um 14:30 (-0500): most work we did are under mac/linux, but for windows release, we are using cygwin. is MSYS better than cygwin? I'm not familiar with windows at all. Cygwin is a POSIX emulation layer for Windows. Programs compiled for Cygwin need the Cygwin

Re: [xml] compile libxml2.7.8 under cygwinWin7 with mingw toolchain

2011-12-06 Thread Earnie
lin hong wrote: I'm more comfortable with MSYS. most work we did are under mac/linux, but for windows release, we are using cygwin. is MSYS better than cygwin? I'm not familiar with windows at all. MSYS is a fork of Cygwin at version 1.3.3 and modified to apply some automagic for POSIX

Re: [xml] compile libxml2.7.8 under cygwinWin7 with mingw toolchain

2011-12-06 Thread lin hong
thanks, that's a lot of info. i wish i found this mailing list earlier. Best, Lin Hong Division of Invertebrate Zoology American Museum of Natural History Tel: 212-313-7581 POY website : http://research.amnh.org/scicomp/scripts/download.php lin hong wrote: I'm more comfortable with MSYS.