Re: [Pan-devel] Re: Building PAN on Windows

[Charles Kerr]

DPA wrote:
> Well I wish I could say that I was successful but I have been unable to
> compile libxml2...  I walked away from it for a few days out of
> frustration but I will pick it back up sometime this weekend.
>
> If my hack results in the behavior you describe I will dig into it and
> see if I can produce a patch to resolve it, but I hope I don't have to
> try!  My unused Comp Sci education is 10 years old so any patch I make
> could be very ugly ;-)
>
> As for running it on Windows I run it on my primary machine under linux,
> but I would like to get a Windows version working for a friend who wants
> a good client but the non-CVS version hangs for him when he visits many
> of the larger binary groups.  Right now he is running Agent but he would
> like to use PAN and this is an interesting Challenge for me.  If I do
> manage to get it done and if Charles doesn't mind I will host the
> installer somewhere for people to download if they want to test the CVS
> version on Windows.

No, I don't mind -- lots of people have been asking for an update of the 
Windows version.  In fact if you get it working I'd be happy to host it 
on rebelbase. :)

http://pan.rebelbase.com/building-pan-on-windows.txt should be helpful 
to anyone wanting to build Pan on Windows.  It's essentially a list of 
the steps I've gone through in building in the past.

I never could get libxml2 2.6.3 or higher to work, so my Windows builds 
stuck with 2.6.2.  If it makes you feel better, the libxml2 dependency 
is going away RSN.

cheers,
Charles