Hello,

is there a specific reason why libxml is not built for MacOS X / darwin? My first instinct was to "just try it" and but then I found out the hard way, that I have no idea how to correctly use fpmake ...

So in case there is simply no one who tried libxml on OSX, I would be willing to do. However, how to correctly build it? I modified fpmake.pp to include "darwin" as possible target, but calling fpmake fails:

./fpmake
The installer encountered the following error:
Could not find unit directory for dependency package "rtl"

What would be the best next step from here?

Thanks!

In our previous episode, Andreas Schneider said:

Copy libxml/src/* simply to your working dir and compile your demo ?

Oh god, that must have been tunnel vision. Yeah, that was the obvious next step. Thanks :-)

I compiled all the supplied examples and ran them, and they seem to print plausible results.
The only hurdle is, that ld doesn't pick up libxml2.dylib on its own - for whatever reason.

I had to explicitly add {$linklib xml2} to the code to get it to link. (Although in the code it explicitly references
"'libxml2.'+sharedsuffix;" already, which should have the same result, imho.)

Can I easily install the libxml package into my installed fpc for the given target? (by using fppkg, fpmake, or whatever?)

Marco van de Voort 21. Februar 2015 20:33 Copy libxml/src/* simply to your working dir and compile your demo ?