From: Erwin Rol (Erwin.Rol@q-soft-engineering.com)
Date: Thu Jul 06 2000 - 10:57:29 EDT
Jordan Henderson wrote:
>
> I recently built libxml2-2.0.0 under Cygwin 1.1.2, a POSIX
> environment built on GCC and GNU tools. The build went without
> problems, but it failed a number of tests. I haven't had time
> to look into it any more than this.
>
> In theory, you could have a set of XML tools built on Win32 using
> Cygwin that would not risk becoming dependent on any MS tools.
We aren't dependent in anyway, as long as there is windows there will
be windows tools, and it is not that it _only_ works on MS tools :-).
And i don't think ppl will want to install a compiler
for every library they need/want. And i must say i am not a big fan
of Cygwin at all, it introduces yet an other layer of probleems (ontop
of the ones MS already made for us :-)
And appart from a few minor things it compiles on VC++ 6.0. i will look
into the DLL stuff a bit and the socket things this weekend.
- Erwin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:Daniel.Veillard@w3.org]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:56 AM
> To: xml@rpmfind.net
> Subject: Re: [xml] Compile error libxml2-2.1.1/WIN32
>
> On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 03:08:34PM +0200, Peter Jacobi wrote:
> > Hi Erwin, Daniel, All,
>
> Tribute due: David Doolin is probably the most aware of libxml
> on windows issues
>
> For the record, and if he accepts I would like to make him
> "responsible" for the Win32 issues, since he's the one who worked
> recently on the subject. The discussions on this topic should stay
> on this list anyway.
>
> > I'm somewhat behind updating my projects to the newest libxml versions,
> > but I want to comment on Erwins's WIN32 compatibiliy report.
> >
> > I urge not to make the WIN32 compatibility a MSVC only thing.
> >
> > Just a) working around some UNIX-specific non-ANSI/ISO stuff and b)
> > adapt for winsock should make every compiler on WIN32 happy.
>
> Send patches :-)
>
> Honnestly I'm Win32 agnostic. I just want:
>
> - not to destroy the existing code
> - to try to isolate those Win32 specific issues and constructs
> in a separated file (specific includes, defines, exports for DLL,
> etc...) hence the specific config file.
>
> Also don't ask me to check anything on Windows, I don't have it and
> don't expect to use or install it in the forseable future. Testing
> occasionally on Solaris or AIX is possible for me without too much
> pain so I do it from time to time.
>
> Daniel
>
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