Are you using at least version 2.4.20 of the libxml2 library? There is a check in the Makefile.PL of XML::LibXML::Common for this, but that may have been bypassed for your system.

By the way, the failures reported on MSWin32 for XML-LibXML-Common-0.13 are due to lack of the libxml2 header files on the tester's machine. At least for Win32 ActivePerl 8xx, this version of XML-LibXML-Common builds and tests fine when a suitable libxml2 library is available.

There's a discussion on the xml mailing list about the problem with an undefined reference to _imp__xmlFree error on mingw. This may be present in the libxml2 library you're using; if you can't find a more recent version, you might try building it yourself from the sources.

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