Hi,
I'd like to try a tiny change to the CDATA class. In order to try, I
have to be able to build lxml. Unfortunately, on Windows.
I've downloaded Visual Studio 2019 CE. I created a (Python 3.12) virtual
environment, where I installed Cython (latest version). I cloned lxml
sources from GitHub. I then opened a "Developer command prompt for VS
2019", activated the virtual environment, and typed:
(.venv) C:\Temp\lxml\lxml>python setup.py build_ext -i --with-cython
--static-deps
This downloads the dependencies like libxml2 etc.; this goes without
problems. Then compilation starts, and gives errors:
[...]
Creating library
build\temp.win32-cpython-312\Release\src\lxml\etree.cp312-win_amd64.lib
and object
build\temp.win32-cpython-312\Release\src\lxml\etree.cp312-win_amd64.exp
etree.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlStrchr
etree.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlIOParseDTD
etree.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlMemShow
[...]
There are in total 503 unresolved externals. I checked the first one,
and find that is is present in the downloaded libxml2_a.lib, but without
the underscore. The directories of the downloaded libraries are
correctly added to the compiler command line.
I am out of my depth here. I hope someone is willing to help me proceed.
Kind regards,
Gertjan.
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