From: Ross Bamford <rossrt@...>
Date: 2006-05-23T16:48:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Libxml on Windows?

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 09:57 +0900, Marcus Andersson wrote:
> See it as a small echo to the performance thread...
> 
> I want to parse large XML documents. Doing it with REXML is 
> (unacceptably) slow (more than a minute compared to Java with a couple 
> of seconds which is perfectly ok). So I was thinking about doing it with 
> libxml. Well, it seems I need to compile it from C myself etc etc etc... 
> Is there a ready made gem that works with Windows that don't require me 
> to install a complete C development environment and build and compile a 
> number of other libraries first?
> 
> I've googled but it's kind of hard to find anything about it. Ends up 
> with pages refering to Sam Ruby in a Python context (where there seems 
> to be a perfectly fine .exe for installation of libxml bindings by the 
> way...)

There are pre-built libxml binaries available for libxml2 at:

	http://www.zlatkovic.com/libxml.en.html

Unfortunately, that doesn't free you from having to compile the
libxml-ruby stuff. If anyone on Windows is willing to maintain
precompiled binaries I think we'd be very happy to carry them, but
no-one currently on the project is windows based.

-- 
Ross Bamford - rosco@roscopeco.REMOVE.co.uk