Re: [igraph] igraph python module in winxp?

[Dylan T Walker]

Tamas,

The compile errors that I am getting are not so revealing, except that they 
indicate that it simply cannot find the libxml2 libraries at a certain point.  
I see what is happening.  The libxml2 libraries are provided in gnuwin32, 
however the xml2-config is left unaltered as a bash script (and thus cannot be 
called in winxp to determine the directories).  

I tried to override in setup.py and modified the .extend() 's to include the 
right directory.  This seems to work insofar as the libxml2 .h files it looks 
for are initially found.  

However, the libxml2 .h files _themselves_ have lines such as: "<#include 
libxml/something.h>".  I believe that this was handled in the real libxml with 
just a simlink within the libxml/ directory to itself.  But when I compile it 
cannot find these other .h files (I suspect because winxp simlinks are just 
.lnk files that I doubt most compilers know how to deal with).   

Short of "hardcoding" the full path in all of libxml's .h files, is there 
perhaps a more obvious way to deal with this that anyone knows of?  

Maybe I misunderstand the situation completely.   It could also, potentially be 
a problem relating to the "/" "\" difference in winxp and linux.

Dylan Walker