libxml2 is required for building on Windows since LLVM 14

numba / llvmlite

A lightweight LLVM python binding for writing JIT compilers

https://llvmlite.pydata.org/

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libxml2 is required for building on Windows since LLVM 14 #925

Open gmarkall opened 1 year ago

gmarkall commented 1 year ago

Identified in #922.

@apmasell Suggested that it may be required for emitted remarks: https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/pull/922#issuecomment-1476061341
On Linux and macOS, we explicitly disable it: https://github.com/numba/llvmlite/blob/main/conda-recipes/llvmdev/build_llvm14.sh#L31

We should determine whether it's really needed and disable it if not.

gmarkall commented 1 year ago

I also found I needed to install libz on Windows since the update to 14 - not sure if this is a new surprise dependency too.

sklam commented 1 year ago

Revisiting this for llvmlite0.40.1 release. On the buildfarm, the base conda environment has an effect to the build---if it has libxml2, it gets picked up. The randomness of libxml2 requirement is coming from which windows machine got the job for the llvmdev build. One out of 3 machines has libxml2 in the base env.