[lxml-dev] Can't build lxml sources - failure to link - Windows

[Stefan Behnel]

Robert Dailey wrote:
> I'm using Python 2.5. If you would upload a binary I would greatly
> appreciate it. If you also wouldn't mind giving me the link to where I
> can find the file when it is available I would also appreciate that (if
> it will be located on Python Cheese Shop, I know how to find it).

They'll be on Cheeseshop.


> I
> realize it may be impractical for you, but if you have any spare time:
> if you could attempt to build using mingw32 maybe you could figure out
> the outstanding linker issues I've been having. Maybe you'd be able to
> solve the problem and then post with your results. This is completely
> optional; I just ask that you look at it if you're willing and if time
> allows.

>From what I've read about the topic so far, it might be a problem to build
against a VC-built libxml2 etc. with mingw32 (that was in the links I posted),
but using it to build extensions against the official Python release /should/
work. So what you could try if you want to build it yourself is build libxml2
and libxslt from sources first using mingw32 and then build lxml against those.

It would actually be interesting for us to know if this works, as it would
allow others to work on lxml from windows more easily (without buying VC first).

Stefan