Re: [xml] HOWTO build libxml2 with minGW & pthreads-win32

[Aleksey Sanin <aleksey aleksey com>]

I am not Igor but I think I know the reason. So if you don't mind, I'll 
answer. On Windows
there are several different C runtime libraries and you'll have problems if
       - your library is compiled with C runtime 1;
       - your program is compiled with C runtime 2'
       - memory, allocated in library (i.e. runtime 1), is freed by 
program (i.e. runtime 2).
IMHO, most simple solution would be to get LibXML2 sources and 
re-compile it with minGW
by yourself. Another option is to switch to MS Visual Studio and use 
Igor's binaries.

Aleksey.

Michel GOUGET wrote:

> Hi Igor,
>
> I think this question is for you.
> I am porting from Linux to windows a program using libxml2 and pthreads.
> I thought that the most straightforward way would be to use minGW (and more
> specifically dev-C++ with gcc 2.95.3-6), and pthreads-win32 (snapshot
> 2002-03-02, the latest version at sources.redhat.com) , I got the libxml and
> iconv libraries from your site and compiled the thing, but got segv the
> first time I was using xmlMalloc().
> I was able to compile and run successfully a small test program (parse an
> xml file); so I suspect that the lib has been built for another threads
> package and maybe another compiler/runtime.
> It looks like I must get the lib from the CVS tree and recompile it if I
> want to do serious work.
> So my questions are:
> - Is it necessary ?
> - If yes, could you give me hints or pointers on how to do it for my
> environment before I start reinventing the wheel. Mingw has no
> autoconf/automake, so what about defines ?, makefile ?, tricks ?, compiler
> switches?.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michel
>
>
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