Re: [lmi] Upgrading libxml2 and libxslt

[Greg Chicares]

On 2016-07-15 20:19, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
[...zlib configure...]
>  Unfortunately this "configure" is, in spite of its name, a manually
> written script and not something generated by autoconf, so it took me some
> time to understand this but I do indeed see what it is doing now and the
> way to work around the problem above is to do the following:
> 
>       % export LDSHARED='gcc -shared'
>       % export LDSHAREDLIBC=''
>       % PATH=/MinGW_bin:$PATH ./configure
>       % PATH=/MinGW_bin:$PATH make -s
> 
> This still produces libz.so.1.2.8 and not the expected libz.dll on output
> however. It looks functional and we could just rename it to libz1.dll and

We can override the name thus:
  SHAREDLIBV='libz1.dll'
and adding '--out-implib':
  LDSHARED='gcc -shared -Wl,--out-implib,libz1.dll.a'
fixes the import library's name.

I'll commit these changes after testing.