Re: [xslt] building libxslt on windows

[Tim Van Holder <tim vanholder anubex com>]

Manish Marathe wrote:
> Tim Van Holder wrote:
> 
>> If you're using cygwin, why are the errors from the microsoft compiler?
>> It seems likely that if you used configure under cygwin, that the
>> compiler flags wouldn't be set correctly for the MS compiler.
>> Perhaps you didn't have gcc installed when you configured?
>>
> I do have gcc
> 
>> If you're using the DSPs you shouldn't run the configure shell script
>> at all; there should be Windows-specific config steps.
>>
> No I am not using DSP's. I used Makefile.msvc and before that configured
> using configure.js. Here are my steps
> 
> In the directory libxslt/win32/   on cygwin
> 
> $ cscript configure.js prefix='C:\dev\libxslt' 
> include='C:\dev\libxml\include'  lib='C:\dev\libxml\lib'
> $ nmake
> 
> thats it and then these errors.

Ah ok - that should be fine - I just got confused when you mentioned
you were using a cygwin environment (which you're not, at least not in
the context of this libxslt build).

>>>> P.S: Following are the errors
>>>>
>>>> <!--------------------------------------------------------------->
>>>>
>>>> Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.9782.0
>>>> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.
>>>>
>>>>       cl.exe /I..\libexslt /nologo /D "WIN32" /D "_WINDOWS" /D
>>>> "_MBCS" /W3 /MD /D "_REENTRANT" /I.. /I..\libxslt /IC:\dev\libxslt
>>>> \include /D "NDEBUG"
>>>> /O2 /Foint.exslt.msvc\ /c ..\libexslt\crypto.c
>>>> crypto.c
>>>> ..\libexslt\crypto.c(144) : error C2061: syntax error : identifier
>>>> 'exsltCryptoCryptoApiCreateHash'
>>>>     
>>
>>
>> This suggests your wincrypt.h doesn't define HCRYPTHASH.  Either the
>> code assumes a newer version of the platform sdk, or there is something
>> wrong on your end.  The other errors seem to come from the same problem:
>> a bad wincrypt.h.
>>  
>>
> 
> Well, if at all the wincrypt.h is corrupt, what could be the possible
> solution?
> 
> Appreciate your input, Tim.

I'd say go to the MS MSDN website and download the latest Platform SDK
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/platformsdk/); the wincrypt.h that comes with
it will probably work.  You'll probably have to edit vcvars.bat so that
the platform sdk's lib and include paths are first in your INC and LIB
envvars.
Alternatively, if you don't need crypto support, you can edit
exsltconfig.h and disable it (change the #if 1 above the definition of
EXSLT_CRYPTO_ENABLED to #if 0).  That should allow you to get past
crypto.c at least.