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libxml-raku / LibXML-raku

Raku bindings to the libxml2 native library
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Complete Windows port #66

Open dwarring opened 2 years ago

dwarring commented 2 years ago

LibXML release adds 0.6.11 initial support for Windows. DLLs are installed for libxml and xml6, so there's no need to build anything.

Some loose ends:

  1. Rebuilding of xml6.dll is currently a manual process. Needs an automated workflow, similar to, but more involved than, Base64::Native.
  2. libxml2.dll has been built with iconv disabled, which limits XML encoding to a few common cases such as utf-8 and latin-1.
  3. Also built with no threading support

Also awaiting PR's on LibaryMake to fix install failures. Currently needs to be zef installed either --force or -/test

dwarring commented 2 years ago

Note also the approach taken by Gtk::Simple, which downloads DLLs from http://gtk-dlls.p6c.org, including libxml2-2.dll

dwarring commented 1 year ago

Currently tests run, but fails on installation, see this test which has LibXML as a dependency.

Caused by name mangling. xml6 is searching for libxml.dll, but it's been renamed during installation.

Again, Gtk::Simple may offer a solution, see GTK::Simple::NativeLib.rakumod which takes copies of the DLLs to a temporary directory with unmangled names.