Re: [xml] compiling libxml v2.4.26 with mingw under win2k

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor stud fh-frankfurt de>]

Hi,

> Unfortunately this didn't solve the problem.

It would have been too easy anyway :-) But what exactly does the compiler 
complain about?

> When you say it hasn't been finalised does that mean it's available in CVS
> but not yet been release?!  If so, is that build available to Jo public  at
> all?

I mean it is not available in the CVS. Elisabeth Barham did this work for 
the unix-based mingw cross-compiler and it should work on windows-based 
mingw as well. Her bits were not commited to the CVS, at least I cannot 
remember they were. Her changes are available to the public, she posted the 
URL yesterday.

> I need to be able to build GLIB, GTK, LIBXML, LIBGLADE and all the smaller
> libraries in-between for customer satisfaction that if any one library was
> discontinued, we could still build it and possibly patch it.  I am hopping
> to do this with MSYS or CYGWIN using the MINGW compiler.

Mingw+MSYS and Cygwin have one thing in common: libxml2 does not compile out 
of the box. The problem is not in the C source, but in the GNU 
autoconf/automake bits. These two platforms require something in there that 
is not available in the CVS. As far as I understand it, these bits would 
cause some conflicts, something that has to do with the versions of the 
required tools.

I Really don't know much about GNU autoconf/automake and I can very well be 
wrong. If I am right, chances are that your compilation with mingw+MSYS is 
simply missing a header or two. Check win32config.h and see what it 
includes. Also check those HAVE_* macros, perhaps you are missing one of those.

Ciao
Igor