Re: [xml] Patches for Win32/MSCC build

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 06:00:00PM +0200, Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Here are few things regarding the Win32/MSCC build of libxml2. The patches
> are made against libxml2-2.3.6.
>
> 1. MSVC project files are updated to contain newly made source files. The
> project files are in the tarball named 'dspfiles.tar.gz', compressed in
> order to avoid CRLF->LF conversion. These files must be in CRLF format,
> because the Microsoft's IDE does not like it otherwise. All .dsp files from
> the tarball belong under win32/libxml2.

  okay updated/added

> 2. The file 'libxml2.def.src' is a pseudo-source file used to generate the
> .DEF for the MS linker. The above project files assume it is there and
> handle it properly without further intervention. It belongs under
> win32/libxml2 as well. With this, we can finally make a usable shared
> library under Win32/MSCC platform. The library exports 736 symbols and if
> that isn't enough... I would like to thank everyone for ideas and thoughts
> regarding this issue.

  i added it to win32/libxml2

> 3. I made small change to include/libxml/xmlversion.h. Namely, this file is
> included by the above 'libxml2.def.src' and then preprocessed. After
> preprocessing, a small piece of code remains in the generated .DEF file and
> MS linker feels slightly offended by that. The piece of code in question is
> a simple function prototype:
>     
>     extern void xmlCheckVersion(int version);
>
> A small modification makes it conditional:
>
>     #ifndef LIBXML2_COMPILING_MSCCDEF
>     extern void xmlCheckVersion(int version);
>     #endif /* LIBXML2_COMPILING_MSCCDEF */
>
> This 'LIBXML2_COMPILING_MSCCDEF' macro is defined in 'libxml2.def.src'.
> Under all other platform/compiler combinations, it is always undefined. The
> patch can be found in xmlversion.diff

  well actually the patch had to be applied to xmlversion.h.in, done.

> 4. include/win32config.h now has the mappings for snprintf and vsnprintf,
> which are present in Microsoft's C runtime under different names. The patch
> is in win32config.diff

  applied

> 5. xmllint.c received a small modification which makes it compile and work
> under Win32/MSCC correctly, with disabled timings. The patch is in
> xmllint.diff

  applied too,

  All your patches are in CVS and should make into the next release,
thanks for taking care of this,

Daniel

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