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Building the latest iconv and libxml2 binaries in Win32

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libxml2 provides JavaScript configure. Look for it in win32 folder. There also is a separate readme file there. Example of building libxml2:

cd win32
cscript.exe configure.js compiler=mingw prefix=D:\soft\Qt\2010.03\mingw  debug=yes static=yes
mingw32-make -f Makefile.mingw

I've downloaded prebuilt iconv and it works for me.

Basilevs 2010-08-07 07:53:14

Basilevs,Thanks, this did work for libxml2, but as for iconv I wanted to get the latest 1.13.1 and build that one, but wasn't able to find them anywhere. I tried using the ones available on Sourceforge with MinGW (http://sourceforge.net/downloads/mingw/MinGW/libiconv/libiconv-1.13.1/) but couldn't get those to work without doing some hacky stuff to change the iconv.dll naming conventions.

James Reinke 2010-08-10 06:14:49

I always use static library for iconv. Have you tried it?

Basilevs 2010-08-11 04:46:18

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you can get the binaries for windows made by Igor Zlatkovic at http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html

Aragorn 2010-08-09 04:04:21

Aaragorn, I did see those binaries, but they are older than the ones I currently have, he only has 1.9.2, I was hoping for a newer version. I understand it may work fine with an older version of the .dll but I was trying to avoid the dependency of relying on pre-built .dlls and try to build my own. I've accepted the compromise and will use an older version, although I'd still like to figure out how to build iconv on win32. Cygwin and MinGW/MSYS failed for me even after many tries and workarounds.

James Reinke 2010-08-10 06:17:23

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