Re: Around in circles installing Lib-XML on Windows

On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:57:37 -0400
Peter Farr <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am still trying to install XML-LibXML on an isolated Windows XP system
> running ActiveState Perl 5.8.9. I have no choice about the version or perl or
> OS, so please do not suggest Strawberry or anything like that. I would prefer
> to use the PPD, but the only one I can find for my environment (ActiveState
> Perl 5.8.9 on Win XP) fails with "Can't find any package that provides
> XML-LibXML-Common..." and I can't find a compatible ppd for XML-LibXML-Common.
> The package is one I got from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/zips/ dated
> 04-Sep-2006. 

Well, 2006 predates perl-5.8.9, and you shouldn't use that PPD. 

> 
> I then tried to install from source using MinGW, but, even though I have
> a functional libxml2 environment (I'm able to use the command line xmllint and
> other command line tools for example) I cannot get LibXML's Makefile.PL to
> recognize my libxml2.

In order to get XML-LibXML compiled on Win32, please see:

https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70141

Good luck.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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