libxml/libxslt on win32

well.. would it kill anyone to have iconv built-in anyway? I mean by
default built-in? At present that's done purely for libxml but Frank's
right, gtk+ also has it as a dependency. Are these the only two areas that
rely on iconv at all?

We had a discussion about integrating iconv before now (iliaa, me,
moriyoshi) but at the time the focus of the discussion was mbstring.

AFAICR there's been no further discussion about it. Wez could answer me a
question here: if iconv was built-in, would it now (or will it soon be)
possible to ensure that it was built prior to libxml or any other extension
that might rely on it?

And who cares about BSDI anyway? ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info]
Sent: 20 July 2004 00:42
To: steph@zend.com
Cc: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] libxml/libxslt on win32

Thats true, but php-gtk uses iconv too and I can see php with iconv
build-in and libxml and php-gtk compiled as shared objects so you can use
gtk without libxml and without iconv.dll.

• Frank

Won't this become a chicken-and-worm situation? The reason the iconv
exports were put there in the first place was so that the libxml build
could
rely with confidence on there being built-in support for libxml's own
built-in iconv functions through PHP, rather than having to lean on an
external iconv.dll at runtime..

• Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank M. Kromann [mailto:frank@kromann.info]
Sent: 19 July 2004 23:32
To: Rob Richards
Cc: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] libxml/libxslt on win32

I've been using these libraries for a while without problems.

Can we split the iconv related exports from php_libxml.def to
php_iconv.def. This will make it possible to build with iconv, but
without
libxml.

• Frank

If possible can the libxml and libxslt libs get updated to newer
versions?
Libs can be found here: http://ctindustries.net/dom/libxml/

These version will fix some bugs, provide better libxml/libxslt
support,
enable namespace support in xml ext and allow for building of
xmlwriter in
pecl.
I have been testing these libs for a bit now (4.3 and 5) and haven't
run
into any issues.

If the libs are update the new php_libxml2.def file needs to be
commited.

Rob