Libxml on Windows?

Ruby
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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…)

/Marcus

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If you are using windows you can access MSXML via OLE

cheers

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On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 09:57 +0900, Marcus A. wrote:

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.

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Ross B. skrev:

There are pre-built libxml binaries available for libxml2 at:
zlatkovic.com - Libxml

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.

Sigh, I guess I have to set up an environment then. I did it a couple of
months ago on another computer and I think it barely worked. Is mingw
the way to go or is there something better/simpler (where simple is
something I really like, C compiling/building is something I did at
university 10 years ago…)?

/Marcus