Re: [xml] Problem when building libxml2 with Borland C++ 6

[Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>]

Eric Zurcher csiro au wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently learned that the libxml2 does not build with BCB6. The
> problem is the result of the inclusion of the Windows header file
> ws2tcpip.h by wsockcompat.h. The ws2tcpip.h header file (apparently
> supplied to Borland by Microsoft) uses a macro, WS2TCPIP_INLINE, which
> on non-Microsoft compilers gets defined as "extern inline". That's fine
> for C++ compilation, but the "inline" directive is not recognized by BCB
> when doing standard C compilation.
>
> Arguably this is really a problem in the Borland header file, but it
> would be nice if libxml2 could be compiled without having to modify the
> distributed headers. The best patch I've been able to come up with so
> far is this:
>   
What error is it giving and is it possible that this might be resolved 
with some compiler flag(s)? I am unfamiliar with the Borland compiler, 
but I did see other projects like libcurl using the same include and 
building with BCB6.

Rob