[gmx-developers] windows blues

Roland Schulz roland at utk.edu
Thu Nov 12 17:15:49 CET 2015


Hi,

not sure why you think it shouldn't be needed. I thought we always used the
dynamic library. But there should be a dll in the libxml bin folder. I'll
check.

Roland

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> But the point is that there is no libxml2.dll anywhere - nor should one be
> needed, I think. I also tried putting the libxml2.lib in the bin folder,
> and that doesn't help. If I export PATH to include bin and lib (in a cygwin
> terminal admittedly) I still get gmxpreprocess-test demanding libxml2.dll
>
> Mark
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:48 PM Roland Schulz <roland at utk.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the dll should be in the bin folder. You need to set the PATH to include
>> that bin folder.
>>
>> Roland
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Mark Abraham <mark.j.abraham at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> master branch has a bug that a new Windows configuration is provoking. I
>>> suspect I know what the problem is, but it'd be nice to break into the
>>> debugger to be sure. Details are at
>>> http://jenkins.gromacs.org/job/Gromacs_Gerrit_master_nrwpo/OPTIONS=icc-16.0%20msvc-2015%20fftpack%20host=bs-win2012r2,label=bs-win2012r2/164/consoleFull,
>>> but when I log into that machine to run the correct offending
>>> gmxpreprocess-test binary, I get a nice Windows popup telling me that
>>> libxml2.dll is missing. Yet by design we only have
>>> C:/utils/lib64/lib/libxml2.lib available, i.e. for static linking. The
>>> linking succeeded, so this library got found, and the Jenkins setup got
>>> this binary to run, so it must be possible. My own build with VS+Intel has
>>> the same problem. Is there some special sauce needed to get it to know what
>>> to do?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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