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

[DPA]

Christophe, thank you for the reply!  It looks like you are still 
further along than I am, I finally got libxml2 to build by not building 
it with zlib support.  I hope that won't break pan but we will see...

I am now getting this error when trying to build PAN now that I got 
passed the problem with building version 2.6.2 of libxml:
sockets.o(.text+0x54):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0xc8):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x143):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x15c):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x16a):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x173):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x19d):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x24b):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x2e3):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x42f):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
sockets.o(.text+0x45d):sockets.c: undefined reference to address@hidden'
fu000006.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libxml2_dll_a_iname'
fu000007.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libxml2_dll_a_iname'
fu000008.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libxml2_dll_a_iname'
fu000009.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libxml2_dll_a_iname'
fu000010.o(.idata$3+0xc): undefined reference to `libxml2_dll_a_iname'
fu000011.o(.idata$3+0xc): more undefined references to 
`libxml2_dll_a_iname' follow
nmth000005.o(.idata$4+0x0): undefined reference to `_nm__xmlFree'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This error occurs with Libxml-2.6.2.

WSAStartup, gethostbyaddr and the rest all seem to be provided by 
winsock2.h, but even adding #include <winsock2.h> to sockets.c and 
sockets.h did not seem to help.  I tried hacking around but this 
basically exhausted my limited programming ability. ;-)

I will look deeper into it tomorrow but any tips would be greatly 
appreciated!

GISQUET Christophe wrote:
> 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