[xml] Re: [Mingw-users] Compiling libxml2.4.26 under Win2k (with mingw or cygwin)

[Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd yahoo com>]

I'm giving this a shot, but, where is the include/wsockcompat.h file?

martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> Thanks for your input!
>
> When you compile with MinGW... do you use cygwin and set the paths to point
> to MinGW's /bin? or do you use MSYS?
>
> Also, I am doing this because I have written an application which is going
> to be funded and developed commercially and I need to make sure (in the
> unlikely event that some libraries are discontinued) that I can build ALL
> libraries involved from the ground up.  This includes GLIB, GTK, LIBXML,
> LIBGLADE (all ver 2) and a few others in-between (such as intl and iconv).
>
> So far I have attempted to build ALL of these from MinGW out of the box on
> Win2k (with MSYS and CYGWIN) and been unsuccessfull in some way or another.
> Are there any guidelines as to how to install all/each of these packages?
>
> At the moment, I can compile LIBGLADE and LIBXML myself with MSVC, but i'd
> rather not.
>
> I appreciate any suggestions/help.
>
> Regards,
> Martyn
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Chicares [mailto:chicares mindspring com]
> Sent: 14 November 2002 00:16
> To: martyn 2 russell bt com; mingw-users lists sourceforge net
> Subject: Re: [Mingw-users] Compiling libxml2.4.26 under Win2k (with
> mingw or cygwin)
>
>
> martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
>
> > > Has anyone been successfull compiling libxml-2.4.26 using mingw under
> msys
>
> > > OR cygwin?
> > >
> > > When I run ./configure all is fine, then, I run make.  The output is as
> > > follows:
> > >
> > > $ make
> [...]
>
> > > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include -g -O2 -Wall -c
> > > SAX.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC -o .libs/SAX.lo
> > > In file included from libxml.h:13,
> > >                 from SAX.c:11:
> > > include/win32config.h:51: parse error before "sizeof"
> [snip lots of downstream errors]
>
> I have built libxml-2.4.22 (not .26) using mingw.
>
> One of my coworkers discussed the changes I made with
> the libxml2 maintainers; they weren't accepted,
> apparently because it was felt they'd break the build
> for some other platform, and I didn't look into it
> further because Elizabeth Barham:
>
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-September/msg00196.html
>
> who had seen my patches and also knows something about
> autotools seemed to be carrying the torch better than
> I can. Did Elizabeth's changes get applied in 2.4.26?
> If not, then please try her patch and see if that
> works. But if that doesn't work, let me know and I'll
> look into it when I find the time. Earnie offered to
> host a reasonable mingw patch if the maintainers of
> libxml2 don't want to, and I didn't take up that
> offer only because I hoped Elizabeth's efforts would
> succeed.
>
> But libxml2 is too important to let it fail to work
> with mingw, so one way or another we'll get it fixed.
>
>
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