Build Updates on Win32 - Instructions for 2.5/CVS HEAD

Hi everyone! The cool people among you will have noticed a patch
slipping into CVS HEAD that switches AbiWord on Win32 from using a peer,
ancient version of Expat to using the bright and shiny version of
LibXML2 of your choice, installed in your build environment. It's
mostly taken from a patch by Mikey Cooper from quite a while ago that
was never committed - modifications to make libxml2 the default and the
automatic adjustment of the patch to the newest sources was all that was
needed. Thanks, Mikey!

Also, the promised documentation on how to build AbiWord CVS HEAD/2.5 on
Windows has also surfaced: http://www.abisource.com/~rp/abi25.html
It's a work in progress, and I have not yet had time to test the
plugins. I have no reason to believe any tools plugins should disagree
with the changes, although I have not updated the installers to remove
the dll downloading code that is now irrelevant. However, there may be
troubles within the import/export plugins: the glib-based plugins will
now have to cope with a glib binary shared with the core Abi, and
according to Fridrich Strba, the libwpd binaries were built against the
(now disused) libgsf 1.8, rather than the 1.14.1 which my next patch
will integrate (via wv 1.2). Right now they should work fine, but there
is a possibility that lipwpd may have to be updated upon my next patch.
This is all speculation, however.

Thanks for reading, and thanks for your support! Any questions or
comments about my patches will be pleasantly fielded, unless you try to
scare me by typing in all caps and using random symbols to suggest
expletives, as Marc has a history of doing. ;)

Later, AbiFolk!

Ryan

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Ryan Pavlik
AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer
www.abisource.com
"Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." - Helen Keller