Re: Installing XML::LibXSLT (ActiveState/32-bit)

* Daniel Perrett wrote:
>"The general workflow would be that you get libxslt, compile it,"
>So do I need to be compiling LibXSLT.dll from source and definitely not 
>using the precompiled version (with or without the accompanying .lib and 
>.h files )? That makes things trickier. 

The XS module has to be compiled (unless someone releases a pre-compiled
version like in the form of a PPM module) and that requires the .h files
and likely .lib files (it depends a bit on which compiler you use, and
generally speaking .lib files can be derived from .dlls). It is possible
to use pre-compiled binaries for libxslt when compiling the XS module,
but care has to be taken to account for compiler incompatibilities and
related issues. Personally I have usually found it more reliable to com-
pile everything myself, but also much more inconvenient.

>" ensure that Makefile.PL can find the library headers and other files, 
>and then
>use the standard perl Makefile.PL; make test; make install process."
>One problem for me has been working out where Makefile.PL wants these 
>things (dlls, .exe, .lib, .h?). Unless I'm being a bit thick, it's not 
>obvious where it is looking. 

According to the README you should use

  % perl Makefile.PL INC="..." LIBS="..."

Where INC points to a directory that includes the header files and LIBS
points to a directory that includes the library (.lib) files. It may be
that a higher level directory has to be used, in case the XS module has
references like "libxslt/libxslt.h" in which case you would point to the
directory that contains a libxslt directory which in turn has libxslt.h.
I have not checked whether this is the case here or what the names are.
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