Re: [xml] Windows Build Minorities

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Eric Zurcher csiro au wrote:
> Igor,
>
> I have a couple of patches for you. 
>
> The first is a patch to configure.js which adds a BCB-specific boolean
> option named "dynruntime". If set to "yes", then Borland's dynamic runtime
> will used; otherwise the runtime is linked statically. This option is set to
> "yes" by default.
>
> The second is an associated patch to Makefile.bcb to set the appropriate
> compilation flags based on the dynruntime setting. It also fixes a bug where
> the leading "!" was omitted from an !else conditional in the Makefile.
>
> One caveat here - many of the test applications (xmllint and friends) will
> not run correctly if the BCB configuration settings include both
> multithreading (threads != "no") and use of static runtimes (dynruntime ==
> "no"). This is a consequence of the "stdout" problem which I mentioned a few
> days ago. With these settings, both the BCB-build DLL and the application
> will each have  their own "stdout", and separate mechanisms for handling
> thread contention on files. In the test applications, the application's
> stdout is passed as a argument to functions like xmlDocDump. When the DLL
> tries to write to it, its runtime first tries to lock the FILE for
> thread-safety, and apparently chokes when it can't find it in its internal
> table.

It's in the CVS. Thanks!

Ciao,
Igor