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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Building on Win32
From: andi@zend.com (Andi Gutmans)

At 07:22 PM 6/13/2003 -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
>From: Andi Gutmans
>
> > So can someone tell me where the build stands, what the instructions are
> > and how we can get rid of the need of using a patched version of libxml2?
>
>On windows, you really dont need that giant patch.
>
>Currently it does need xmlInitThreads in the libxml2.def.src/libxml2.def
>(depending if you want to run configure again or not), if you want to use
>libxml as a shared dll. If you compile it statically (add LIBXML_STATIC=1 to
>the preprocessor definitions) you dont have to worry about adding the export
>declaration or recompiling libxml.
>
>If we dump the call the xmlInitThreads in xml extension, then a patched
>version is no longer needed. Currently this is an empty function, but
>supposedly will be used in the near future.
>
>Also for php4dllts project make sure HAVE_XML is in the preprocessor
>definitions.
>If this still doesnt work, send the errors you get compiling.

Thanks for the instructions. I'll try them out later on.

Andi