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. -- Chris Devers