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JuliaIO / LibExpat.jl

Julia interface to the Expat XML parser library
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BinDeps provider for Windows #18

Closed ihnorton closed 10 years ago

ihnorton commented 10 years ago

We are slowly getting more people who compile Julia themselves on Windows (and this will increase when MSVC is supported). It would be useful to eventually have an installation provider so that the required LibExpat DLLs can be installed automatically if needed - right now, they are bundled with the packages.

See https://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl/issues/52

vtjnash commented 10 years ago

Seems like an unnecessary catch-22 here. The make win-extras target takes care of this bootstrapping requirement. I chose to use libexpat as the base requirement since it is widely available in binary form an has no dependencies.

ihnorton commented 10 years ago

Good point. I'll add an install-extras target to the Makefile instead.