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

[GISQUET Christophe]

Hello,

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.

Can't you pick the package available at [1] ? Unfortunately, it's way too 
MSVC-centric, and if I remember well, almost useless: no libtool file, archive 
libs have to be renamed, no pkg-config file, no xml2Conf to get in yet another 
way the pathes and to top it all, missing exported symbols. You could get 
packages I build using mingw: libxml2 2.6.23 [2] which depends on libiconv 
1.10 [3]. I'm usually building them with --enable-shared --enable-static 
--disable-rpath --enable-nls (so they might need gettext dlls too, but I'm not 
sure).

The drawback is that if you use Tor Lillqvist's GTK+/... packages [4], which 
don't have versioning in his dlls, will yield a double dependency for instance 
on iconv.dll and libiconv-2.dll. I found no way to force libiconv build setup 
into submission and remove this versioning so that the ones you compile can 
replace the ones provided by Lillqvist.

> 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.

I'm currently able to build the CVS version. Unfortunately, as W2000 is not 
IPv6-happy, I had to hack into pan some support:
- patch available at [5] using legacy functions
- get the IPv6 technology preview for win2K and make an import lib out of the 
dll (using pexports and dlltool as explained at [6])

Any solution I pick, the pan binary launches. When I try to update any 
newsgroup, the application just sits there, sometimes hanging for a few 
seconds. Some months ago, it was at last starting to get some articles, but 
was timing out quickly.

I hope it will work out better for you.

Best regards,
Christophe GISQUET

[1] http://xmlsoft.org/sources/win32
[2] http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/libxml2-2.6.23.tar.bz2
[3] http://christophe.gisquet.free.fr/libiconv-1.10.tar.bz2
[4] http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html
[5] http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6.asp
[6] http://www.emmestech.com/software/cygwin/pexports-0.43/moron1.html