Subject: bug#23916: 25.0.95; libxml2 library not found

From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 07:30:41 -0400

On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 6:30 AM, [email-masked],
<[email-masked]> wrote:
> Flycheck complains about missing libxml2. As far as I can see, this
> should have been bundled with emacs.
>
> In GNU Emacs 25.0.95.1 (i686-w64-mingw32)
> of 2016-06-12 built on LAPHROAIG
> Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
> Configured using:
> 'configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --without-dbus
> --without-compress-install CFLAGS=-static'
>
> Configured features:
> XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
> TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS

> Recent messages:
> libxml2 library not found [3 times]

This message is from Emacs (xml.c, init_libxml2_functions). It means
you configured with libxml2, but didn't include the dll on PATH (or in
same directory as emacs.exe). The error should be reproducible with
just

emacs -Q --eval "(libxml-parse-xml-region 1 1)"