XML on mingw ... was Re: NSKeyedUnarchiver

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Jan 2006, at 01:28, Sheldon Gill wrote:

> > > I have libxml2 2.6.22 compiling and linking fine in my sandbox.  
> > > I  haven't yet run through enough testing to be confident of its   
> > > operation but there shouldn't be any big issues. I am using the   
> > > full libiconv from GNU-Win32 and had no problem with symbols and   
> > > linking.
> > I tried libxml2 2.6.3 ... and it had problems linking with libiconv.
> > So I followed Christopher's instructions for fixing up the  
> > libiconv  information, and then the libxml2 build worked fine.
>
> Which version of libiconv are you using and from where?

The version 1.8-1 bin and lib packages from http:// 
gnuwin32.sourceforge.net as specified in README.MinGW in the gnustep- 
make documentation.

> I'm using GNU-Win32 libiconv binary distribution, version  
> 1.8.1134.7927
>
> Anyway, 2.6.3 was released 10-Dec-2003 which is over 2 years old  
> now. Major windows build fixes weren't incorporated until 2.6.4 at  
> the earliest.
>
> The current release of libxml is 2.6.23 which has been out for  
> exactly one week now. I haven't updated to it but shall before  
> long. Perhaps you'll find that works out-of-the-box?

I see I made a typing error and said I tried 2.6.3 ... what I meat to  
type was 2.6.23

What I used was the latest I could find ... and it worked fine apart  
from having linking problems with libiconv until I made the change to  
libiconv that Christopher suggested.