RE: [xml] Windows build

[Eric Zurcher csiro au]

Hi Igor,

While you're tinkering with the Win32 configuration and header files, would
you be willing to add a few additional modifications to better support
Borland C++ Builder? For example, many of the headers currently use the
following construct:

#if defined(WIN32) && defined(_MSC_VER)
#include <libxml/xmlwin32version.h>
#else
#include <libxml/xmlversion.h>
#endif

Neither WIN32 or _MSC_VER are predefined by the Borland compiler, yet the
xmlwin32version.h header is the appropriate one. I've been circumventing
this problem by using a manually generated libxml/xmlversion.h that just
includes the win32 version, but that's a somewhat ugly solution.

There are other places where code conditionally included when _MSC_VER is
defined would also be applicable to the Borland compiler. (For example, the
definitions for isinf and isnan.) 

Of course it would be easy to manually define _MSC_VER when using the
Borland compiler, but that would then make it difficult to deal with those
cases where the two compilers do differ in their behaviours.

Perhaps I'm asking for a bit too much. It appears that there aren't many
other people using BCB to build libxml2. Nevertheless, if you can find a
good way to handle Borland, and perhaps other non-Microsoft compilers, under
Win32, I would appreciate it. (And I must say that I really appreciate the
work that you've already done. Having this library available on Win32 is a
real asset.)

> From: Igor Zlatkovic <igor stud fh-frankfurt de>
> To: <xml gnome org>, <xslt gnome org>
> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:21:11 +0200
> Organization: UAS Frankfurt
> Subject: [xml] Windows build
>
>
> What I could do now to ease it a bit is to remove win32config.h completely
> and have the source include config.h, just like on Unix. That would
> eventually allow mingw users to choose between two configuration
mechanisms
> and use either the JScript-based one (does not need an Unix shell on
> Windows), or a GNU autoconf based one (the only way for an Unix-hosted
> cross-compiler).
Eric Zurcher
CSIRO Livestock Industries
Canberra, Australia
Eric Zurcher csiro au