Re: [xml] Howto statically link from a win32 client app

[Rob Richards <rrichards ctindustries net>]

Coleman Brumley wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I apologize if this as been gone over in some detail before.
>
> I'm building a win32 application which uses libxml2.  To simplify my 
> application distribution, I'd like to statically link the libxml 
> libraries and not require libxml2.dll et al be distributed.
>
> I've tried #define LIBXML_STATIC in my client app, but it still tries 
> to load libxml2.dll at startup.  I didn't think it would be that 
> simple.  :-)  I've also searched through the mail list archive and 
> read the FAQ at xmlsoft.org and read zlatkovic.com.
> Do I need to recompile libxml2 from scratch for this to work?
> Thanks in advance.
Make sure you link with libxml2_a.lib and NOT libxml2.lib

Rob