joshh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Im having some problems getting XML::LibXML to build in cpan. I have decided to just download XML::LibXML::Common to try building the dependencies first and going from there. Below is the errors I am getting. I built perl from source on my box with dmake & mingw. it compiled ok and all test passed. In my path I have mingw/bin and perl/bin in my path. I got all of the binaries from Igor's site and have them in the appropriate mingw directories Does any one have any suggestions? 
C:\CPAN~1\build\XML-LI~1.13>perl Makefile.PL INC=-IF:/MinGWEnv/include
+/libxml LIB=-LF:/MinGWEnv/lib
enable native perl UTF8
looking for -lxml2... yes
Writing Makefile for XML::LibXML::Common

C:\CPAN~1\build\XML-LI~1.13>dmake
cp Common.pm blib\lib\XML\LibXML\Common.pm
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe C:\perl\lib\ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap C:\perl\lib
+\ExtUtils\typemap -typemap typemap  Common.xs > Common.xsc && C:\perl
+\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command
-e mv Common.xsc Common.c
gcc -c  -IF:/MinGWEnv/include/libxml    -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DHAVE_DES_FCRY
+PT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing -
+DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -s -O2    -DV
ERSION=\"0.13\"         -DXS_VERSION=\"0.13\"  "-IC:\perl\lib\CORE"  -
+DHAVE_UTF8 -DHAVE_BLANK Common.c
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Mksymlists \
    -e "Mksymlists('NAME'=>\"XML::LibXML::Common\", 'DLBASE' => 'Commo
+n', 'DL_FUNCS' => {  }, 'FUNCLIST' => [], 'IMPORTS' => {  }, 'DL_VARS
+' => []);"
Running Mkbootstrap for XML::LibXML::Common ()
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 Common.bs
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e cp Common.bs blib\arch\aut
+o\XML\LibXML\Common\Common.bs
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command -e chmod 644 blib\arch\auto\X
+ML\LibXML\Common\Common.bs
dlltool --def Common.def --output-exp dll.exp
g++ -o blib\arch\auto\XML\LibXML\Common\Common.dll -Wl,--base-file -Wl
+,dll.base -mdll -s -L"c:\perl\lib\CORE" -L"F:\MinGWEnv\lib" Common.o 
+-Wl,--image-base,0x2c010000  C:\perl\lib\CORE\libperl58.a F:\MinGWEnv
+\lib\libxml2.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\zlib.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libmsvcrt.a F:\
+MinGWEnv\lib\libmoldname.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libkernel32.a F:\MinGWEnv\
+lib\libuser32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libgdi32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libwinspoo
+l.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libcomdlg32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libadvapi32.a F:\Mi
+nGWEnv\lib\libshell32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libole32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\li
+boleaut32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libnetapi32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libuuid.a 
F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libws2_32.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libmpr.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\l
+ibwinmm.a F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libversion.a 
F:\MinGWEnv\lib\libodbc32.a
dll.exp
Common.o(.text+0x3bf):Common.c: undefined reference to `_imp__xmlFree'
Common.o(.text+0x63f):Common.c: undefined reference to `_imp__xmlFree'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
dmake.exe:  Error code 1, while making 'blib\arch\auto\XML\LibXML\Comm
+on\Common.dll'

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Re: LibXML On Windows Compile Issues
by InfiniteSilence (Curate) on Sep 26, 2005 at 19:27 UTC
    Where did you get version 1.13? I can only see 0.13 on CPAN. At any rate, there may be a bug in that version for Windows. Try CPAN testers for XML::LibXML::Common for v. 0.13. Looks like it failed to compile, where .10 seemed to have worked on 5.8.0.

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      Ok. downloaded 0.10 and tried compiles ok but test five fails. heres my output 
      C:\.cpan\build\XML-LibXML-Common-0.10>dmake test
C:\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
1..5
# Running under perl version 5.008007 for MSWin32
# Current time local: Mon Sep 26 21:02:20 2005
# Current time GMT:   Tue Sep 27 02:02:20 2005
# Using Test.pm version 1.25
ok 1
ok 2
ok 3
ok 4
not ok 5
# Failed test 5 in test.pl at line 42
#  test.pl line 42 is: ok( length( $@ ) );

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        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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      The reason it says 1.13 is because of old dos 8.3 scheme i believe. For example "Program Files" becomes "Progra~1" or some thing like that. I am using 0.13 and will try 0.10
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Re: LibXML On Windows Compile Issues
by planetscape (Chancellor) on Sep 27, 2005 at 06:24 UTC
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