If you're creating libxml2 with the "mingw" compiler, just copy the
Makefile.mingw to the root directory as "Makefile", edit the PREFIX
value, and run "make".

If you're using MSVC, here are some instructions for how you can
proceed:

The configuration stuff (i.e. what should be enabled/disabled) is in
xmlversion.h I only tested it compiled fine with the current settings
(that is nearly everything disabled, I didn't need many features)

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How did I get everything in place so the MSDev project works from the
original archive?

from the cygwin prompt (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin) :
$ ./configure --disable-corba --without-ftp --without-http --without-html --wit
hout-xpath --without-iconv --without-debug

built the project file for the static library

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diff after doing the changes and cleaning up the generated stuff:

[Note: this is out of date]
diff libxml2-2.2.4/xmlversion.h libxml2-2.2.4-reference/xmlversion.h
38c38
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
47c47
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
56c56
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
74c74
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
83c83
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
92c92
< #if 0
---
> #if 1
