Hello David here is what i am doing with my package installer :
https://github.com/vtorri/ewpi/blob/master/packages/libxml2/install.sh version i compile : https://github.com/vtorri/ewpi/blob/master/packages/libxml2/libxml2.ewpi hth Vincent Torri On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:50 PM David Mathog <mat...@caltech.edu> wrote: > > Trying to build libxml2 in MSYS2 mingw32. About a year ago using the > same commands 2.9.7 built without problems. Now neither 2.9.10 nor > 2.9.7 will build, both failing in the "python" part of the build. > After downloading and unpacking libxml2 2.9.10 (2.9.7 acts the same) > did: > > #in an MSYS2 mingw32 window > ./configure > make > > which failed. > > The python section wanted to include "crypt.h". Installed that with: > pacman -S libcrypt > but it still did not find it, because the file is in /usr/include rather > than /mingw32/include. It is looking for python includes in > /usr/include/python3.7m but changing that to python2.7 did not help. > > With "make V=1" found the compile line which was looking for "crypt.h" > and added to it "-I/usr/include". That got it past the crypt.h problem > but then it wanted "sys/select.h", which is I think an even bigger > problem. > > I didn't see an option for 2.9.10 like "--disable-libcrypt" or anything > like that. > > Anybody else run into this yet? > > This was after updating all of mingw32 with "pacman -Syu" (twice) > yesterday. So I think all of the Msys2/mingw32 pieces should be > current. > Everything was updated about a year ago too, before the last build. So > some combination of mingw32 and libxml2 changes in the last year seem to > have broken things. > > Thanks, > > David Mathog > mat...@caltech.edu > Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech > > > _______________________________________________ > Mingw-w64-public mailing list > Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public