libxml2 platforms

Hi XML Team,
  my question is of some basic nature.
In the last days I have evaluated the libxm2 library if it
could be used
for a software testframe where the control data for testing
program 
units are
stored as XML files.
It is relatively simple and it is sufficient for me to use
the XMLReader 
and the
XMLSchema interfaces and to have xmllint.

However we need the libxml2 for a number of platforms, i.e.
Windows, HP, SGI, SUN, IBM, Linux.
As to be seen on the web site there are binaries available
for only a few
of these platforms.

I think it could be difficult to handle the update and
maintenance
for a number of different libxml2 providers and I think the
better
idea whould be to access the source from a single place and
to build
the libraries by ourselves within our default process.

(1) First I would be interested in your opinion if this is
the right
    strategy?
(2) If so, I would like to know, what is the
    - official site to get the source code from
    - is there all the information available
(compilerswitches, ....)
      how to finally build the binaries on all of the above
platforms
      
Thanks in advance
Manfred Rahmig
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:09:50AM +0200, Manfred Rahmig
wrote:
> (1) First I would be interested in your opinion if this
is the right
>     strategy?

  Completely depends. On Fedora/RHEL I maintain the package,
others do
a good job on other Linux distro, for legacy systems and
Windows all
bets are off

> (2) If so, I would like to know, what is the
>     - official site to get the source code from

   from ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2

>     - is there all the information available
(compilerswitches, ....)
>       how to finally build the binaries on all of the
above platforms

   ./configure --prefix=... ; make ; make install
 on relatively sane platforms. For windows see the readme in
win32 subdir.

Daniel

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