Re: XML Support & MS Windows & compiling base

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 22 Feb 2005, at 11:51, Marc Brünink wrote:

> Hi
>
> quote out of
> http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/GNUstep/ 
> README.MinGW
>
>   NB. at the time of writing, XML support in GNUstep base has *not*
>   been ported to Windows - but when it is, you will need this package.
>
> Is this still true? Because I got a strange error while compiling  
> base. It claimed about xml-config, which was not found. So I added  
> --disable-xml to ./configure. But, and now comes the hitch, I'm pretty  
> sure that I'd not added --disable-xml yesterday evening.
>
> So Do I have to add --disable-xml, or not? And if not: Do someone have  
> a clue what's going wrong?

Unless you can get it to work with libxml, you need to add --diable-xml  
when you configure.

I have tried a couple of libxml2 binaries on windows, and while  
gnustep-base was able to build using both of them, applications built  
using the resulting library failed at runtime with a complaint that  
entry points in the libxml2 dll were not found.

In theory it should all work ...