Re: XML::LibXSLT - PPM for ActivePerl on Win32

I checked and cygwin comes with a libxml/libxslt packaged. Apart from
cygwin, there is pre-compiled version at
ftp://ftp.zlatkovic.com/libxml/ which looks recent. Includes libXSLT.
Just in case you haven't seen that. I think I used that before I
switched to cygwin.


On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Michael Ludwig <[email protected]> wrote:
> Maurice Mengel schrieb am 29.12.2010 um 08:13 (-0700):
>> I found this old mail of yours since I was searching the list.
>> Apparently, there was no answer. Not sure if it makes any sense to
>> still answer
>
> Man, I've been eyeballing this thread for half a year now! :-)
> Finally, a reply! Must have been christmas or something …
>
>> Strawberry perl builds most xs modules without problems. I haven't
>> tried LibXML, but I expect it would work easy. I use LibXML under
>> cygwin, currently with perl 5.10. And it installs easily.
>
> Thanks for the pointer to Strawberry.
>
> I went the MSXML route back then, via Win32::OLE. Looks like this route
> isn't being travelled extensively, and possibly never has been. There
> are some gotchas, particularly if you skip the docs and jump straight to
> the code.
>
> (The fact that my then employer used an antediluvial Perl 5.6.1, which
> doesn't handle Unicode in any decent way, made things rather unpleasant,
> though.)
>
>> ActivePerl seems a little dated to me, so maybe that's why updates are
>> not coming.
>
> I must say that Jan Dubois of ActiveState has been very, very helpful on
> the ActivePerl list. ActivePerl releases have been aligned with those of
> Perl, which means they have been quite frequent recently.
>
> Building LibXSLT (which XML::LibXSLT depends on) on Windows, however, is
> not straightforward. The configure.js build script appears to have bugs.
> That might explain why there isn't a PPM for recent versions.
>
> --
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