Problems installing RSvg.jl on Windows

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Some people are having trouble installing Rsvg.jl on Windows (Luxor doesn't compile on julia v1.11.5 · Issue #332 · JuliaGraphics/Luxor.jl · GitHub). Can anyone with Windows (and a few spare minutes) install Rsvg.jl (or Luxor.jl) successfully?

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This was fixed in [Librsvg] Update to 2.54.7 and add missing XML2 dep by nhz2 · Pull Request #11544 · JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil · GitHub

You need to make sure that the latest version of Librsvg_jll is being used.

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Does Rsvg.jl need to be updated (released)?

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I don’t think so. I think the registry could be edited to somehow prevent this.

The underlying issue is that Librsvg_jll is compiled with libxml2 2.13 but the latest version of libxml2 is 2.14, and 2.14 has a different API and ABI.
So eventually all the jll packages using libxml2 need to be rebuild or updated.

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Thanks for the explanation!

I’m not clear how people can fix their problems, but at least they know why things aren’t working. :grinning_face:

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Shouldn’t something be fixed in the registry to make this work without human intervention?

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I made Fix Librsvg_jll compat by nhz2 · Pull Request #135821 · JuliaRegistries/General · GitHub which adds the XML2_jll dep to the “Deps.toml” file. Does editing “Deps.toml” like this break the registry, and in this case, should the previous versions of “Librsvg_jll” be yanked instead?

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I updated the PR to yank to broken versions of Librsvg_jll

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Thanks for your work!