Re: [xml] More windows exports

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 05:39:56PM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> > > I can't express how much I hate that .def.src file :-)
> >
> > Maybe it could be generated from libxml2-api.xml?
> 
> Unfortunately, no. That file does not contain information vital for the
> .def.src file.

  But that information could be hard coded in the stylesheet relatively
easilly and this would require far less maintenance than the .def.src file
itself.

> Namely, it does not say what must be #defined to make a certain symbol
> available. For example, it says that there is a function xmlXPathEval, but
> it doesn't say that its existence depends on LIBXML_XPATH_ENABLED being
> #defined.

   Yeah, but it comes from the xpath module so that dependance can be
added quite easilly. That's how I do for the python binding.

> Additionally, in case thread support is enabled, it contains the wrong list.
> Few variables become functions in this case and their names change. For
> example, xmlGenericError is a pointer to a function normally, with threads
> it becomes becomes a function named __xmlGenericError.

  Okay, but those are restricted to globals.c and also can be hardcoded
in the stylesheet. It means the stylesheet may require a bit of maintenance
a few time per year, that would be still quite easier than maintaining the
.def.src file directly.

  If those points are the only ones stopping you, I may try to build that
stylesheet :-)

Daniel

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