Package containing libxml.dll

Sun Dec 27 18:58:00 GMT 2015

On Sat, 2015年12月26日 at 13:27 -0500, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 12/26/2015 10:35 AM, ravi r wrote:
> > I want to install the library file /usr/lib/libxml.dll.a in cygwin.
> > Installed package
> > libxml2-devel and that did not install this file. In setup program,
> > I cannot
> > find a package named libxml-devel.
> > 
> > What package in setup can I select in cygwin setup to install
> > /usr/lib/libxml.dll.a?
>> You can answer questions like this one with the package search page:
>> <https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi>
>> As you'll find, Cygwin does not have a package for libxml(1). If you
> need
> it for some backwards-compatibility reason, you'll have to build it
> yourself. Otherwise, stick with libxml2.

+1, but stronger: unless someone is having some nostalgia for an
ancient GNOME 1.x program, *nothing* should be using libxml 1.x.
--
Yaakov
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