Re: [xml] libxml as DLL?

[Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen simple dallas tx us>]

On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > Is there any interest in providing a "DLLEXPORT" style define as part
> > of all libxml extern functions so that libxml may more easily be built
> > as a DLL using compilers that require this nonsense?
>
>   I don't understand why the existing Windows support is not adequate.
> Apparently Igor and Cygwin are shipping libxml2 on Windows as shared library
> so where is the problem ?

I see that the win32 directory uses the command-line compiler to
pre-process libxml2.def.src into a .def file.  I suppose we can try
using a .def file, but this is not necessary for the other libraries
we build.

I'll see what we can accomplish by using the .def file.

Bob
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