Re: [Xmlstar-devel] Offer to help with XMLStarlet

[Noam P. <npo...@us...>]

Rowan Thorpe <ro...@ro...> writes:

> It is not as straightforward as I first thought, for a mix of reasons
> (primarily that there aren't many up-to-date 64-bit GCC-or-ANSI-C
> compiled versions of the dependencies - zlib, iconv, libxml, libxslt,
> and some of their Win32 Makefiles are quirky, out-of-date, and 32-bit
> centric).

You can leave out zlib and iconv for now if that makes things easier.
Actually now that I think of it, I may have left zlib out of the win32
package!

> I presume that a statically compiled version is all you are looking
> for? I meandered into dll-and-autoconf-hell a few times so far
> (confusedly, being a *nix user), and might just leave dynamic linking
> out of the equation if not important.

Yeah, since we can't assume any of the dlls would be present on a
Windows system might as well statically link everything.