Re: [OT?] libxml2/libxslt and OSX

[Chris Devers]

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

libxml2

[Brad Rice]

I can't seem to get libxml2 (using libxml2-2.5.1) to install correctly. 
I do a ./configure BUILD=darwin

Everything seems to configure correctly. Then when I do a make or a 
make install I get :

gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I./include -I./include -g -O2 -Wall -c 
SAX.c  -fno-common -DPIC -o .libs/SAX.lo
/Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/encoding.h:27: header file 
'iconv.h' not found
/Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/encoding.h:132: undefined 
type, found `iconv_t'
/Library/Frameworks/libxml.framework/Headers/encoding.h:133: undefined 
type, found `iconv_t'
cpp-precomp: warning: errors during smart preprocessing, retrying in 
basic mode
make[2]: *** [SAX.lo] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

It seems to install the include files into /usr/local/inclue but no 
binary in /usr/local/bin

Then if I try to install XML::LibXML or another module needing libxml3 
it tells me it can't find libxml2.

Any thoughts?

Brad Rice
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: libxml2

[Hannes]

On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 05:57 PM, Brad Rice wrote:

Then if I try to install XML::LibXML or another module needing libxml3 
it tells me it can't find libxml2.

Any thoughts?
http://packages.opendarwin.org/

hth/h