Re: [Mingw-users] Building libxml2 2.8.0 on WindowsXP fails

[Damon R. <dam...@lm...>]

I know this thread is more than a month old but I am trying to build
libxml2 2.8.0 and I see the answer here seems a bit confusing.

On 6/9/2012 7:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Using the wrong tools?
What wrong tools?

> You need to use the MSYS tools to configure and build libxml2.  If you
Are you referring to the older tools that you get if you start a shell with
msys.bat MSYS    (gcc version 3.4.4)
instead of just
msys.bat?        (gcc version 4.6.2)

If the answer to the above is yes, I would really like to know why
do we have to use old tools to get this module to build?

> Alternatively, look in the win32 subdirectory at instructions in
> Readme.txt, and follow them to the letter.  (Since the configuration
> files in win32 suffer some bitrot, I recommend the MSYS way.)
What is bitrot?  How does it apply to the win32 subdirectory?
I tried using this win32 method but had a lot of trouble.  I gave
up in favor of the configure/make method.  Sadly, I found that
this also has trouble.  I am still investigating but it appears that
gcc 4.6.2 is broken.

Damon Register