Re: [xml] Build libxml2 Windows

[Roumen Petrov <xmlsec roumenpetrov info>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 11:49:39AM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>    
> > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:02:13AM +0200, Patrick von Reth wrote:
> >      
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > to build libxml2 I had to patch the build system a little bit.
> > > The windows build system tries to link about zdll, but on windows its called
> > > zlib* too, so linking against z is enough.
> > > Also the --include and the --lib command was ignored.
> > >
> > > For the http and ftp stuff linking against some windows library's was
> > > forgotten for mingw.
> > >
> > > In the msvc build script the + in some lines prevented building because of a
> > > parser error in nmake.
> > >
> > > I hope this will help you to improve your build system.
> > >        
> >    Hum, could you actually attach the patch to your mail, there is a
> > lot of guessing needed otherwise :-)
> >      
>    BTW it's now commited upstream, I tweked it a little bit since some
> things were already fixed, or I preserved some of the old shared libs
> names as comments.
>
>   thanks !
>
> Daniel
>
>    
Quote from patch
...../win32/Makefile.mingw
.....
@@ -66,20 +66,22 @@ LD = gcc.exe
 LDFLAGS += -Wl,--major-image-version,$(LIBXML_MAJOR_VERSION)
 LDFLAGS += -Wl,--minor-image-version,$(LIBXML_MINOR_VERSION)
 LDFLAGS += -Wl,-L,$(BINDIR) -Wl,-L,$(LIBPREFIX)
-LIBS =
+LIBS =
 ifeq ($(WITH_FTP),1)
 CFLAGS += -D_WINSOCKAPI_
-LIBS += -lwsock32
+LIBS += -lwsock32 -lws2_32
 endif
.......

Whoops!
Only -lws2_32 in all win32/Makefile.* ?

Roumen