On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, wren argetlahm wrote:
> This is only somewhat off topic, but I was wondering if there were any
> packages out there for Mac OS X with the necessary development C
> headers for libxml2 and libxslt? I can only seem to find rpms of the
> same. If not (brace yourselves) how difficult would they be to
> create*?
The system should already have the libxml2 libraries, but you get both
the libraries and headers if you install XCode. (You get, among other
things, /usr/lib/libxml2.{2.dylib,la} and /usr/include/libxml2/* files.)
For libxslt, it may compile cleanly on its own, but personally I just
get it from Fink, which is a port of the Debian APT/dpkg toolkit. With
Fink, an `apt-get install libxslt libxslt-bin libxslt-shlibs` should
download and install .debs that have been patched & compiled for OSX.
Incidently, RPM probably won't help much on OSX. I'm not aware of any
porting framework that uses it. Aside from Fink, the other main one,
GNU/Darwin, is (ironically?) based on the BSD ports system. I've not
heard of anyone porting over the RedHat porting framework to OSX.
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Chris Devers
