[xml] Modules support for win32 (was: Re: [PATCH] Build shared library on Win32)

["Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:00:08PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > The Fedora MinGW project is cross-compiling ilbxslt from a Fedora host
> > to run on Windows.  We had to add the following small patch to
> > persuade libtool to build a DLL:
> >
> > http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/?f=2515b165a5e3;file=libxslt/mingw32-libxslt-1.1.24-win32-shared.patch
> the post would be a more natural target for the xslt gnome org list :-)
> looks fine, applied and commited. In the past Roumen Petrov has been the
> one fixing mingw and espacially cross-compiling issues, so I'm Cc'ing
> him in the reply.

OK!  I don't think I have any more patches for libxslt anyway - it
seems to just work now.

On the subject of enabling modules to work in libxml2, I wonder if
you've looked at FlexDLL?  It offers a dlopen-like interface for Win32
DLLs.

http://alain.frisch.fr/flexdll.html

Rich.

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