On Sat, 2015-12-26 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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
