Fails to build on windows

[coding-yogi]

I am using libxml as a dependency for one of my projects but it fails to build on windows. Any pointers to resolve this issue?

error: failed to run custom build command for `libxml v0.2.14`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\xyz\work\rust\bombardier\target\release\build\libxml-77d8a84e5c34f954\build-script-build` (exit code: 101)
--- stderr
thread 'main' panicked at 'Could not find libxml2 using pkg-config', C:\Users\xyz\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\libxml-0.2.14\build.rs:5:5

[dginev]

Short answer is that the crate has never been used under windows, so it is expected behavior for it to fail on a first try. I haven't actually even used rust itself under windows, so I wouldn't be able to offer any patches on a short notice. Happy to merge in any PRs that offer upgrades in this direction however, always welcome!

[coding-yogi]

Thanks, I have no clue why it fails so unfortunately cannot submit any PR. This is the only lib which I found to be working well in case of XML and HTML xpath parsing.

Only thing I tried is downloading libxml2 for windows and adding it to path with no luck

[coding-yogi]

Somehow got it built on windows using MSYS2 and mingw64 , is it possible to statically link libxml2 so that on windows I do not need the libxml2 and its dependecies?

[dginev]

Good to hear @coding-yogi . And I wouldn't bundle in libxlm2 directly no, definitely not a fan of carrying it around. I am instead waiting on the complete rust transpilation of libxml2 by c2rust. We've had some discussions with them that they may either publish that as a standalone crate or bundle it with this wrapper, when they feel ready, so that may be a roundabout way of getting simpler windows builds.

[coding-yogi]

Good to know, will close this issue for now

[ghost]

I've tested rust-libxml built on windows with vcpkg crate. https://github.com/simoin/rust-libxml/blob/win/build.rs
just add this to build.rs, or make pkg-config/vcpkg into feature:

if pkg_config::find_library("libxml-2.0").is_ok() {

} else if vcpkg::find_package("libxml2").is_ok() {

} else {
    panic!("Could not find libxml2")
}

[dginev]

Hi @simoin , any reason pkg_config wasn't sufficient for you? I am not familiar wit the vcpkg ecosystem at all, so unsure if we should have it always supported, or if this is an equivalent alternative?

Thanks for sharing!

[ghost]

I'm using MSVC ABI XD. Vcpkg is a package manager for C and C++ libraries made by MS, so it's easy to integrate with MSVC ABI by vcpkg-rs crate.

And Yes, it's an equivalent alternative.
For example, rusqlite crate provide them both for platform compatibility.

libsqlite3-sys is a separate crate from rusqlite that provides the Rust declarations for SQLite's C API. By default, libsqlite3-sys attempts to find a SQLite library that already exists on your system using pkg-config, or a Vcpkg installation for MSVC ABI builds.

[JoshuaNitschke]

This issue is closed, if @simoin were to make a pull request with his change to support Vcpkg, would it be merged @dginev ?

[dginev]

That verbatim change mentioned in the first comment may be a bit heavy, since it means we'll have both pkg_config and vcpkg as simultaneous dependencies. But I will be happy to merge a PR that uses a feature guard in Cargo.toml, as libsqlite3-sys does, to choose one or the other. And I can quickly make a new crate release afterwards.

I can also do the work myself, but no promises as to when just yet...

[JoshuaNitschke]

@dginev I haven't had any luck at all getting pkg_config to work on Windows, so I think this would be a big help.

I'm not at all familiar with C++ and generating bindings, but I'll try to take a stab the feature guard and see if I can get my project to compile on my windows box. If I can make it work, I'll submit a PR. Should I use this issue or make a new one?

[dginev]

Feel free to use this one, and thanks for giving it a shot! I'll look into setting up CI for a windows build for the repo, should help maintain both builds operational.

[JoshuaNitschke]

I worked on it tonight, I have the feature flag working, but a question and an issue:

1. do you want pkg-config to be default or should the package manager always be explicit?
2. libxml2 is found, but several tests are failing.

C:\Users\nitschkej\Documents\GitHub\rust-libxml>cargo test --features vcpkg
   Compiling libxml v0.2.14 (C:\Users\nitschkej\Documents\GitHub\rust-libxml)
    Finished test [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6.62s
     Running target\debug\deps\libxml-8c5fb79f5bba5ac9.exe

running 96 tests
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_UConverterFromUnicodeArgs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_UConverterToUnicodeArgs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos_t ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos64_t ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_FILE ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_marker ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___fsid_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___mbstate_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___mbstate_t__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_1__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_2 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_2__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_internal_list ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_mutex_s ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_rwlock_arch_t ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___sigset_t ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___va_list_tag ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__htmlElemDesc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__htmlEntityDesc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__uconv_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xlinkHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlAttr ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlAttribute ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChLRange ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChRangeGroup ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChSRange ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlCharEncodingHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDOMWrapCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDoc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDtd ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlElement ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlElementContent ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlEntity ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlEnumeration ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlError ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlGlobalState ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlID ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlLocationSet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNode ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNodeSet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNotation ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlOutputBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserCtxt ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInput ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInputBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfo ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfoSeq ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlRef ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXHandlerV1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXLocator ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchema ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAnnot ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttribute ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttributeGroup ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttributeLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaElement ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaFacet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaFacetLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaNotation ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaType ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaTypeLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaWildcard ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaWildcardNs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlShellCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlURI ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlValidCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathAxis ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathContext ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathFunct ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathObject ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathParserContext ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathType ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathVariable ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_div_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_drand48_data ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_fd_set ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_ldiv_t ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_lldiv_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_max_align_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_attr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_barrier_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_barrierattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_cond_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_condattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_mutex_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_mutexattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_rwlock_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_rwlockattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_random_data ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timespec ... FAILED
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timeval ... FAILED

failures:

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos_t stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos_t' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `12`,
 right: `16`: Size of: _G_fpos_t', src\bindings.rs:744:3
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos64_t stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos64_t' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `12`,
 right: `16`: Size of: _G_fpos64_t', src\bindings.rs:783:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_FILE stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_FILE' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `208`,
 right: `216`: Size of: _IO_FILE', src\bindings.rs:910:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_rwlock_arch_t stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_rwlock_arch_t' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `48`,
 right: `56`: Size of: __pthread_rwlock_arch_t', src\bindings.rs:11721:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout___sigset_t stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout___sigset_t' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `64`,
 right: `128`: Size of: __sigset_t', src\bindings.rs:11537:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserCtxt stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserCtxt' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `720`,
 right: `752`: Size of: _xmlParserCtxt', src\bindings.rs:7749:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInput stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInput' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `96`,
 right: `104`: Size of: _xmlParserInput', src\bindings.rs:7319:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfo stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfo' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `24`,
 right: `40`: Size of: _xmlParserNodeInfo', src\bindings.rs:7498:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfoSeq stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfoSeq' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `16`,
 right: `24`: Size of: _xmlParserNodeInfoSeq', src\bindings.rs:7570:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout_fd_set stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout_fd_set' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `64`,
 right: `128`: Size of: fd_set', src\bindings.rs:11646:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout_ldiv_t stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout_ldiv_t' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `8`,
 right: `16`: Size of: ldiv_t', src\bindings.rs:11348:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timespec stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timespec' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `8`,
 right: `16`: Size of: timespec', src\bindings.rs:11606:3

---- bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timeval stdout ----
thread 'bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timeval' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `8`,
 right: `16`: Size of: timeval', src\bindings.rs:11567:3


failures:
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos64_t
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos_t
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_FILE
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_rwlock_arch_t
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout___sigset_t
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserCtxt
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInput
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfo
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfoSeq
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout_fd_set
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout_ldiv_t
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timespec
    bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timeval

test result: FAILED. 83 passed; 13 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

error: test failed, to rerun pass '--lib'

I also tried it on debian WSL, where those tests pass, but some others fail due to windows line endings...

cargo test --features pkg-config
running 96 tests
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_UConverterFromUnicodeArgs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_UConverterToUnicodeArgs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos64_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__G_fpos_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_FILE ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___fsid_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__IO_marker ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___mbstate_t__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___mbstate_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_1__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_2 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_cond_s__bindgen_ty_2__bindgen_ty_1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_internal_list ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_mutex_s ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___pthread_rwlock_arch_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___sigset_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout___va_list_tag ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__htmlElemDesc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__htmlEntityDesc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__uconv_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xlinkHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChRangeGroup ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlAttr ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlAttribute ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChLRange ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlChSRange ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlCharEncodingHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDOMWrapCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDoc ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlDtd ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlElement ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlElementContent ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlEntity ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlEnumeration ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlError ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlGlobalState ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlID ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlLocationSet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNode ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNodeSet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNotation ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlNs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlOutputBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInput ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserInputBuffer ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfo ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlParserNodeInfoSeq ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlRef ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXHandler ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXHandlerV1 ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSAXLocator ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchema ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAnnot ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttribute ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttributeGroup ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaAttributeLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaElement ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaFacet ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaFacetLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaNotation ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaType ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaTypeLink ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaWildcard ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlSchemaWildcardNs ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlShellCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlURI ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlValidCtxt ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathAxis ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathContext ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathFunct ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathObject ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathParserContext ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathType ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout__xmlXPathVariable ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_div_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_drand48_data ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_fd_set ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_ldiv_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_lldiv_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_max_align_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_attr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_barrier_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_barrierattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_cond_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_condattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_mutex_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_mutexattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_rwlock_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_pthread_rwlockattr_t ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_random_data ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timespec ... ok
test bindings::bindgen_test_layout_timeval ... ok

test result: ok. 96 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

     Running target/debug/deps/base_tests-dbd55dfa3851e3b8

running 13 tests
test create_pi ... ok
test can_parse_xml_string ... ok
test can_load_html_file ... ok
test document_formatted_serialization ... ok
test document_can_import_node ... ok
test well_formed_html ... ok
test hello_builder ... ok
test duplicate_file ... ok
test simple_serialization_unformatted ... ok
test serialization_no_empty ... FAILED
test serialization_as_html ... FAILED
test simple_serialization_test01 ... FAILED
test simple_serialization_namespaces ... FAILED

failures:

---- serialization_no_empty stdout ----
thread 'serialization_no_empty' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r<root>\r<child></child>\r<child></child>\r</root>\r"`,
 right: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><root><child></child><child></child></root>"`', tests/base_tests.rs:225:3

---- serialization_as_html stdout ----
thread 'serialization_as_html' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `"<html>\r<head><metahttp-equiv=\"Content-Type\"content=\"text/html;charset=UTF-8\">\r<title>PageTitle</title>\r</head>\r<body>\r\r<h1>ThisisaHeading</h1>\r<p>Thisisaparagraph.</p>\r\r</body>\r</html>\r"`,
 right: `"<html><head><metahttp-equiv=\"Content-Type\"content=\"text/html;charset=UTF-8\"><title>PageTitle</title></head><body><h1>ThisisaHeading</h1><p>Thisisaparagraph.</p></body></html>"`', tests/base_tests.rs:250:3

---- simple_serialization_test01 stdout ----
thread 'simple_serialization_test01' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r<root>\r<childattribute=\"value\">sometext</child>\r<childattribute=\"empty\">moretext</child>\r</root>\r"`,
 right: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><root><childattribute=\"value\">sometext</child><childattribute=\"empty\">moretext</child></root>"`', tests/base_tests.rs:181:3
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

---- simple_serialization_namespaces stdout ----
thread 'simple_serialization_namespaces' panicked at 'assertion failed: `(left == right)`
  left: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\r<r:rootxmlns:h=\"http://example.com/ns/hello\"xmlns:f=\"http://example.com/ns/farewell\"\rxmlns:r=\"http://example.com/ns/root\">\r\r<h:table>\r<h:tr>\r<h:td>col1</h:td>\r<h:td>col2</h:td>\r</h:tr>\r</h:table>\r\r<f:mock>\r<f:doublemock/>\r</f:mock>\r\r<f:footer>\r<h:table>\r<h:tr>\r<h:td>col3</h:td>\r<f:footer>nestedf</f:footer>\r</h:tr>\r</h:table>\r</f:footer>\r</r:root>\r"`,
 right: `"<?xmlversion=\"1.0\"encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><r:rootxmlns:h=\"http://example.com/ns/hello\"xmlns:f=\"http://example.com/ns/farewell\"xmlns:r=\"http://example.com/ns/root\"><h:table><h:tr><h:td>col1</h:td><h:td>col2</h:td></h:tr></h:table><f:mock><f:doublemock/></f:mock><f:footer><h:table><h:tr><h:td>col3</h:td><f:footer>nestedf</f:footer></h:tr></h:table></f:footer></r:root>"`', tests/base_tests.rs:181:3


failures:
    serialization_as_html
    serialization_no_empty
    simple_serialization_namespaces
    simple_serialization_test01

test result: FAILED. 9 passed; 4 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out

error: test failed, to rerun pass '--test base_tests'

[ghost]

@JoshuaNitschke The reason why failed is that some of those tests are platform-specific.

[JoshuaNitschke]

@dginev looks like merging didn't close this issue since I failed to tag it properly.

[dginev]

No worries, will close here as soon as I get the release out 👍

[dginev]

Alright, thanks to @JoshuaNitschke we now have a working vcpkg build with OS detection, and I have added an Appveyor build to keep that tested and operational. Thanks to everyone here for pushing for Windows support, it feels great to simply be a facilitator 👍

I've shipped a version 0.2.15 to crates.io, so I'm happy to close here and await further reports as you start using the crate on Windows machines. Enjoy!