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Win: Add information about building libxml2 on Windows, since I keep redoing it each year. Also, other people trying to build DWIB themselves could probably use the tips.
author Brian Smith <brian@dbsoft.org>
date Tue, 03 Jan 2023 14:10:30 -0600
parents 75d23be9e6ac
children cd421821ee7f
files readme.txt
diffstat 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/readme.txt	Mon Jan 02 17:09:21 2023 -0600
+++ b/readme.txt	Tue Jan 03 14:10:30 2023 -0600
@@ -22,4 +22,15 @@
 
 Third party software:
 
-I have decided to use libxml2 to generate and load the XML. The reason for this choice is it is stable software written in C under a liberal MIT license. Additionally it is included on MacOS X, almost any Linux and any Unix with Gnome by default. It will likely only need to be included or statically linked on Windows and OS/2.
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+I have decided to use libxml2 to generate and load the XML. The reason for this choice is it is stable software written in C under a liberal MIT license. Additionally it is included on MacOS, almost any Linux and any Unix with Gnome by default. It will likely only need to be included or statically linked on Windows and OS/2.
+
+Notes for building libxml2 on Windows, these are the commands I use from the win32 directory: 
+cscript configure.js compiler=msvc prefix=\Work\GitHub\libxml2 include=\Work\GitHub\libxml2\include lib=\Work\GitHub\libxml2\lib iconv=no cruntime=/MT dynruntime=no
+nmake /f makefile.msvc /a
+nmake /f makefile.msvc install
+cd ..\lib
+mkdir %VSCMD_ARG_TGT_ARCH%
+copy * %VSCMD_ARG_TGT_ARCH%
+
+set XML2INCDIR=\Work\GitHub\libxml2\include
+set XML2LIBDIR=\Work\GitHub\libxml2\lib
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