Now, I spose I might as well try and build the other dependencies and XML::LibXML itself

Both XML::NamespaceSupport and XML::SAX build and test fine. They're pure perl, so no dramas there.

XML::LibXML needs zlib, so I installed that from the location that John provided earlier. Then I can build XML-LibXML-1.66 without any dramas (straight out of the box), though 2 tests fail. Firstly, test 11 of t/16docnodes.t: 
not ok 11
# Test 11 got: "<test contents=\"\xE4\"/>" (t/16docnodes.t at line 57)
#    Expected: "<test contents=\"\xC3\xA4\"/>"
#  t/16docnodes.t line 57 is:         ok( $node->serialize(), encodeTo
+UTF8( 'iso-8859-1',

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And, in t/40reader.t, after the first block of 48 tests are run, a segfault-type error occurs. (It seems to be the clean-up that occurs when exiting the block that causes the crash.)

Other than that, 1.66 seems fine.

The same goes for (the latest) XML-LibXML-1.69, except that that in order to get it to build I have to delete the one occurrence of the word "inline" in perl-libxml-mm.c. That is, in perl-libxml-mm.c, there's a function declared as 'static inline void', and I had to change that declaration to 'static void'. I don't know if that's the correct fix.

UPDATE: Just tried version 1.69_2. Builds straight out of the box, but 40reader.t still segfaults on exiting the first block of 48 tests. No other problems.
UPDATE 2: The failure with 40reader.t has nothing to do with exiting a block of code. It results from this line of code: 
my $reader = new XML::LibXML::Reader($how => $fd, URI => $file);

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$fd is a filehandle, and I think I've run afoul of using multiple runtimes (ie msvcr80.dll and whatever runtime my x64 build of perl uses). If the filehandle is allocated by one dll, the other dll won't know nothing about it - and will throw a tizzy when the filehandle gets passed over to it. Building libxml2 using my "PlatformSDK for Windows Server 2003 R2" compiler should fix the problem. (Not sure if I want to go to that trouble, but.)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^8: XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows (solved) by syphilis
in thread XML::LibXML on 64-bit Windows by Anonymous Monk

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