Re: libsoup on MS Windows problems

[Egon Andersen <ean talura dk>]

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
> As you see from the pexports output, it is still exporting stuff from
> *libxml2*. You need to find out what is going wrong there. (Or just
> use a libxml2 package that has been correctly built by somebody else.)

I actually did try to use the pre-build libxml2 from
http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32/
And I don't see any libxml2-devel package anywhere - have tried Google!

I moved the files to what in MSYS terms are called /usr/local/bin 
/usr/local/lib /usr/local/include

When I try
./configure PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig 
lt_cv_deplibs_check_method='pass_all'

I get complaints that:
No package 'libxml-2.0' found

Well, the pre-build libxml2 do not provide any .pc file, so pkg-config 
can't find it :-(

If I try to use the libxml-2.0.pc file generated when I tried to build 
libxml2 my self, I don't get that complaint, but the make stage then gives:

libtool: link: gcc -shared  .libs/soup-marshal.o .libs/soup-enum-types.o 
.libs/soup-address.o .libs/soup-auth.o .libs/soup-auth-basic.o 
.libs/soup-auth-digest.o .libs/soup-auth-ntlm.o .libs/soup-auth-domain.o 
.libs/soup-auth-domain-basic.o .libs/soup-auth-domain-digest.o 
.libs/soup-auth-manager.o .libs/soup-auth-manager-ntlm.o 
.libs/soup-coding.o .libs/soup-coding-gzip.o .libs/soup-connection.o 
.libs/soup-content-decoder.o .libs/soup-content-sniffer.o 
.libs/soup-cookie.o .libs/soup-cookie-jar.o .libs/soup-cookie-jar-text.o 
.libs/soup-date.o .libs/soup-form.o .libs/soup-gnutls.o 
.libs/soup-headers.o .libs/soup-logger.o .libs/soup-message.o 
.libs/soup-message-body.o .libs/soup-message-client-io.o 
.libs/soup-message-headers.o .libs/soup-message-io.o 
.libs/soup-message-queue.o .libs/soup-message-server-io.o 
.libs/soup-method.o .libs/soup-misc.o .libs/soup-multipart.o 
.libs/soup-nossl.o .libs/soup-password-manager.o .libs/soup-path-map.o 
.libs/soup-proxy-resolver.o .libs/soup-proxy-resolver-static.o 
.libs/soup-proxy-uri-resolver.o .libs/soup-server.o .libs/soup-session.o 
.libs/soup-session-async.o .libs/soup-session-feature.o 
.libs/soup-session-sync.o .libs/soup-socket.o .libs/soup-status.o 
.libs/soup-uri.o .libs/soup-value-utils.o .libs/soup-xmlrpc.o 
-LC:/msys/1.0/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgthread-2.0.dll.a 
-L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libgio-2.0.dll.a -lshlwapi -ldnsapi 
/usr/local/lib/libgobject-2.0.dll.a /usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.dll.a 
/usr/local/lib/libglib-2.0.dll.a -lole32 -lxml2 -lz 
/usr/local/lib/libgnutls.dll.a /usr/local/lib/libintl.dll.a -liconv 
/usr/local/lib/libgcrypt.dll.a /usr/local/lib/libgpg-error.dll.a 
-lws2_32    -o .libs/libsoup-2.4-1.dll -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base 
-Xlinker --out-implib -Xlinker .libs/libsoup-2.4.dll.a
c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
can not find -lxml2

So really I can't see that a pre-build package solved any problem in 
this case.

In general I don't have any wish to build *any* package my self, but I 
haven't been able to find any pre-build package/devel-pagkage for 
libsoup for windows.

Best regards
Egon Andersen