Re: [xml] Problem building libxml-python on VC++ 6

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 09:25:54AM -0500, Douglas Law wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> I have been compiling and using libxml on a VC++ 6 environments for a
> while now, and it is great.
>
> I now have a need to use python for some of our XML work and have
> attempted to build the libxml-python interface (using thre source
> release 2.4.19).  Initially I was getting unresolved reference errors
> during the link stage for all of the libxml functions.  After fiddling
> with the LIBS setting in the setup.py script I have gotten rid of the
> errors except those dealing with memory allocation.

  Hum, you're probably the first one to try to build the python bindings
on Windows (well that's the first report I got).

> Specifically, I get 4 unrsolved references for libxml.obj:
>   _xmlMemAlloc
>  _xmlMemoryStrDup
> _xmlMemRealloc
> _xmlMemFree
>
> I'm sure this is a stupid mistake as I am a newbee at building open
> source stuff.

  And I'm a complete newbie when it comes to Windows DLL/OBJ specificities,
maybe Igor could explain where the problem may be.

> Any pointers you have would be greatly appreciated (including whether or
> not this was the write place to ask this type of question .. I did try
> to find the answer in the other recommended places first.)

  Could it be that those interfaces are not exposed as "exported"
from the Windows library and hence generate linking error contrary to
others symbols ?

Daniel

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