RE: [xml] MSVC unresolved external symbol errors

["Igor Zlatkovic" <izlatkovic daenet de>]

Hi there.

You obviously didn't tell the linker that it is supposed to use libxml2 library.

Unlike standard libraries (C-runtime, etc), libxml must be explicityl specified on the linker command-line. 
It does not suffice to put it into the same directory where the other libs are.

Go to Project->Settings->Link in the IDE and choose the Input category. Add libxml2.lib or libxml2_a.lib to 
the Object/Library modules list. 

Alternatively, you can include one of the files mentioned above into your project. This is as simple as 
drag'n'dropping it from the Windows Explorer into the IDE.

Ciao
Igor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin [mailto:leinfidel netscape net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:28 AM
> To: xml gnome org
> Subject: [xml] MSVC unresolved external symbol errors
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile a basic libxml  program example from 
> the docs here,
>
> http://www.xmlsoft.org/example.html
>
> in Visual Studio 6.  I'm using Igor's WIN32 binaries which he's so 
> graciously provided to the community.
>
> However, I get  unresolved external symbol errors for every 
> api function 
> called,  output below. There is no issue with the headers or libs not 
> being found that I see, I can compile fine with just headers 
> if I don't 
> call on functions.
>
> Anyone know how to resolve this?  I really want to use libxml 
> on the MS 
> platform.  I've seen other posts about this here, but no 
> resolutions posted.
>
> thanks very much for any help,
> Kevin
>
>
> --------------------Configuration: libxml030602 - Win32 
> Debug--------------------
> Compiling...
> libxtest.c
> Linking...
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlCleanupParser
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlKeepBlanksDefault
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlCheckVersion
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlDocDump
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlIsBlankNode
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlStrcmp
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlSearchNsByHref
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlFreeDoc
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlDocGetRootElement
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlParseFile
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol 
> _xmlNodeListGetString
> libxtest.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _xmlGetProp
> Debug/libxml030602.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 12 unresolved externals
> Error executing link.exe.
>
> libxml030602.dll - 13 error(s), 0 warning(s)
>
>
>
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