[xslt] win32 builds Was: win32 build (mingw-cross compilation)

[Roumen Petrov <bugtrack roumenpetrov info>]

Corinna,
Please, could you post recent cygwin patch used to build libxslt.

Roumen
PS: The whole email thread can be viewed at 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/2007-August/msg00019.html


Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:00:06PM +0300, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > > Also note difference between builds process in case of cross 
> > > compilation
> > > and native build when mingw gcc compiler is used. First use GNU 
> > > auto-tools
> > > but second plain makefile-win32/Makefile.mingw. So that my short patch
> > > doesn't affect other builds.
> >
> > Cygwin for example use those.
> What !?!? Yes, but not without patch !
>
> > Plus you changed code within _WIN32 sections in the C code regardless of
> > the compiler used at that point as I pointed out in my reply. You can't
> > do that.
> Why not ? Then look into code and ifdef statements.
>
> > > Before to discuss more details for general patch, please could someone
> > > point why winsock should be used in libxslt ?
> >
> > The patch should be a portability patch, if there are others problems
> > make separate patches which can be examined separately. You can't just
> > say 'here is a mingw-cross compilation patch' and change the behaviour
> > for other compilers.
> My first patch don't change build for other compilers.
> I sent to bugzilla only mingw related changes. Remember this !
>
> > Daniel
>
> Roumen