RE: [xml] Release of libxml2-2.4.19

["Peter Jacobi" <pj walter-graphtek com>]

Hi Igor, All,

> _WIN32 is defined automagically by MS compiler for Win32 targets, perhaps
> to waken an impression that the compiler would support some other targets,
> which it doesn't. 

Have you seen the _MAC and MACPORT #defines in the headers? I 
assume there at least was some Mac version. Not to forget
_PPC_, _MIPS_ and _ALPHA_ from ye olde times of portable NT.

> Perhaps I should clean up the source and have it check
> only for _WIN32 thoroughly.

Fully agree. Most WIN32 compilers agree to #define _WIN32.

> >  xmlNewGlobalState
> >  xmlFreeGlobalState
> [...]
> The native threading code is however... hm... not exactly ugly, but far
> from beautiful.
> [...] I wold suggest at this time to either disable thread support, or
> compile with a pthread implementation, such as
> http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/. I am anyway tempted to start
> making binaries which use this library and depend on it.

Igor, the above mentioned error messages came from compiling
with thread support disabled, when only dummy functions are
generated. I assume there is a flaw in the #ifdef logic which
prevents correct generation of dummy functions, when threads
support is disabled, _WIN32 is defined and _MSC_VER is
not defined.

Sorry for not being more specific. I will look again into this.

Regards,
Peter Jacobi