conflicts with libxml2.dll and pidgin on winxp

[malik_martin@…]

hi, i can't use gobby anymore cause i've installed pidgin on winxp. is there a way i can get around this? it says libxml2.dll is missing. there was a conflict between gobby and pidgin and i had to get rid of it in order to install pidgin. do you think you guys and the pidgin developers might work on a solution for this?

[armin]

What did actually conflict? Why did you have to get rid of something? I don't think we can do much about this. Gobby just requires a valid GTK+ installation (which includes libxml2.dll). If it's just libxml2.dll and nothing else, you can copy it into the path where your gobby.exe is.

Did Pidgin install its own GTK+? If so, please look for a package that doesn't, because you have GTK+ already installed if you could run gobby before. If there is none, please ask the pidgin developers to (optionally) provide one, because it's stupid to have a complete GTK+ installation for each program requiring it.

[anonymous]

copying the .dll from the pidgin directory seems to get rid of the problem. i'll let you know if anything else comes up.

i'm sorry but i forgot the details of the conflict, but it had happened while installing pidgin.

thanks