Using Libxml2 library in VC++

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License. We can use it to read/write data from XML data file.

Steps to use Libxml2 library is as follows:

1. Download GnuWin (note that currently GnuWin is only for win32, for win64, we can simply copy installed files in win32 to win64 system, it did work :)) and intall it to anywhere on your PC.
2. Download Libxml2 and extract it to anywhere on your PC.
3. In VC++ project:
   • Add path <Libxml2 root>/include to VC++ Include Directories.
   • Add path <GnuWin root>/include to VC++ Include Directories.
   • Add path <Libxml2 root>/lib to VC++ Library Directories.
   • Add path <GnuWin root>/lib to VC++ Library Directories.
   • Add libiconv.lib and libxml2.lib to Project Linker Input Additional Dependencies.
   • Copy libxml2.dll under path <Libxml2 root>/bin to project folder.
   • Copy iconv.dll and zlib1.dll to project folder.
4. Do like project to read/write data from/to XML files.