msvc link problems (wa Re: Dia-list Digest, Vol 30, Issue 23)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 27.10.2006 23:40, Andreas Owen wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've solved my previous compiling problems but now i'm having trouble 
> with the obj-files. i found something about multithreading option "/MT". 
> It didn't have any affect. can someone please help.
The /mt option *has* the effect to use the correct c-runtime version: 
msvcrt.dll. It does not slove other missing libraries if that's what you 
are expecting. The cl command line shown by should look like this:

Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility   Version 6.00.8168.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved.

        cl -G5 -Zi -MD -W3 -nologo -I. -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -LD -Felibdia.dll 
autoroute.obj  arrows.obj  attributes.obj  bezier_conn.obj  beziershape.obj 
 boundingbox.obj  color.obj  connection.obj  connectionpoint.obj 
connpoint_line.obj  create.obj  debug.obj  diaarrowchooser.obj 
dialinechooser.obj  diatransform.obj  dia_dirs.obj  dia_image.obj 
dia_svg.obj  dia_xml.obj  diaerror.obj  diagramdata.obj  diagdkrenderer.obj 
 diagtkfontsel.obj  diainteractiverenderer.obj  dialibartrenderer.obj 
diarenderer.obj  diasvgrenderer.obj  dynamic_obj.obj  element.obj 
filter.obj  focus.obj  font.obj  geometry.obj  group.obj  intl.obj 
message.obj neworth_conn.obj  objchange.obj  object.obj 
object_defaults.obj  orth_conn.obj  paper.obj  parent.obj  persistence.obj 
 plug-ins.obj  poly_conn.obj  polyshape.obj  prop_attr.obj  prop_basic.obj 
 prop_geomtypes.obj  prop_inttypes.obj  prop_sdarray.obj  prop_text.obj 
prop_widgets.obj  propdesc.obj  propdialogs.obj   properties.obj 
proplist.obj  propobject.obj  propoffsets.obj  propregistry.obj
ps-utf8.obj  render_pixmap.obj  sheet.obj  text.obj  textline.obj 
utils.obj  widgets.obj  diamarshal.obj ..\../gtk+-2-8\gtk\gtk-wi32-2.0.lib 
..\../gtk+-2-8\gdk\gdk-win32-2.0.lib 
..\../gtk+-2-8\gdk-pixbuf\gdk_pixbuf-2.0.lib ..\../pango\pan
go\pango-1.0.lib  ..\../pango\pango\pango-1.0.lib 
..\../pango\pango\pangowin32-1.0.lib ..\../pango\pango\pango-1.0.lib 
..\../pango\pango\pangocairo-1.0.lib ..\..\glib\glib\glib-2.0.lib 
..\..\glib\gmodule\gmodule-2.0.lib ..\..\glib\gobject\gobject-2.0.lib 
..\../gnome-xml\libxml2.lib ..\../other/zlib123\zlib.lib  ..\../
libart_lgpl\libart.lib ..\../gtk+-2-8\gdk-pixbuf\gdk_pixbuf-2.0.lib 
..\../other/intl-tml\libintl-1.lib user32.lib advapi32.lib wsock32.lib 
/link /OPT:REF /def:libdia.def
   Creating library libdia.lib and object libdia.exp


> MSCVC6 output:
>
> Creating library libdia.lib and object libdia.exp
> sheet.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__xmlFree
> [...]
> NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual 
> Studio\VC98\BIN\nmake.exe"' : return code '0x2'
Although you haven't shown it your command line is missing the libxml2 
part. You either did not follow step 6. in Steffen's list [1] or the 
make.msc you are reading does not have something like:

LIBXML2_CFLAGS = $(LIBICONV_CFLAGS) -I $(LIBXML2)\include
LIBXML2_LIBS = $(LIBXML2)\libxml2.lib

BTW: are you aware of the first document [2] trying to describe the build 
configuration?


[1] http://dia-installer.sourceforge.net/dia_win32_compilation.html
[2] http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/glib/README.win32?rev=1.43&view=markup

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