Re: [xml] libxml2 messed up MonoTouch and Interface Builder

[Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml behnel de>]

James Wright, 08.11.2010 17:40:
> I tried to install libxml2 yesterday for a Ruby side project of mine.
> First I tried it with MacPorts but my MacPorts wouldn't work so I tried to
> download the source for libxml2 and "make" the install which ran with some
> errors but nothing that stopped the install.
> That still didn't work for my Ruby coding (was trying to use the nokogiri
> library) so I got MacPorts working and installed libxml2 via that which
> eventually worked fine.
>
> After that I went back to my MonoTouch iPhone development and noticed that
> MonoTouch would no longer work.
> Now I don't actually get any error and am working with the MonoTouch people
> to figure that out, but if I try to use Interface Builder in OS X it errors
> when I try to create a new .xib file with this
> message<http://pastebin.com/n7zkKau5>  (pastbin
> link).
> The most important part of the message is this:
>
> >     1. Thread 0 Crashed:  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
> >     2. 0   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x00000001004f9b88
> >     __xmlRaiseError + 888 (error.c:614)
> >     3. 1   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x00000001004fa5b7
> >     xmlErrEncodingInt + 151 (parserInternals.c:206)
> >     4. 2   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x00000001004fc326
> >     xmlCurrentChar + 550 (parserInternals.c:707)
> >     5. 3   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x0000000100507168
> >     xmlParseCharData + 904 (parser.c:4232)
> >     6. 4   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x000000010051264e
> >     xmlParseTryOrFinish + 2014 (parser.c:10990)
> >     7. 5   libxml2.2.dylib                     0x00000001005139bb
> >     xmlParseChunk + 411 (parser.c:11611)
> >     8. 6   com.apple.Foundation                0x00007fff8759bca8
> >     -[NSXMLParser parse] + 294
> >
> > As you see, it errors on libxml2.
> I REALLY need to figure out what is going on here.  My knowledge in this
> area is not strong and I have no clue what is going wrong.
> I have tried reinstalling libxml2 and MacPorts and have tried uninstalling
> libxml2 via MacPorts and no luck.

This looks more like a general MacOS problem than anything related 
specifically to libxml2. You may get better responses on a MacOS mailing 
list than what you'd get here.

Stefan