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Sachin Patil

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[Notes] error in process filter: eww-display-html
Published on Jan 07, 2021 by Sachin.

I got the following error when invoking EWW from Emacs.

Error

Contacting host: duckduckgo.com:443
error in process filter: eww-display-html: This function requires Emacs to be compiled with libxml2
error in process filter: This function requires Emacs to be compiled with libxml2

Resolution

Install libxml2-devel package.

# (On Fedora)
sudo dnf install libxml2-devel -y

Configure: Ensure that below line appears in the output.

./configure
....
....
Does Emacs use -lxml2     yes
....

Install.

make & make install