Re: [xml] DUmb questions about using libxml2 with Borland C_++

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:10:42AM +1100, Eric Zurcher csiro au wrote:
> To try to clarify things a bit on use of libxml2 with BCB:
>
> While it is possible to use Igor's pre-compiled Win32 libxml2 DLL with BCB,
> there are a couple of problems with doing so. The first problem is that
> Borland uses OMF rather than COFF format, so the import library provided
> with the DLL won't work directly with the Borland compiler. Fortunately,
> Borland provides a utility called "coff2omf" which can be used to generate
> an import library in Borland format from the original. The second problem is
> not so readily circumvented: some of the functions in the libxml2 API (e.g.,
> xmlDebugDumpString) take a FILE * as a parameter. Since a FILE struct in BCB
> is not equivalent to one in MSVC, these functions cannot be safely called
> from a BCB application. As it happens, this means that nearly all the
> standard test applications, like xmllint, won't work if you use this
> approach.
>
> However, it's easy enough to build libxml2 using BCB, and that's probably
> the best thing to do if you're working with BCB exclusively. Just watch out
> for potential problems with DLL conflicts: if you have other applications
> installed which make use of the MSVC version of libxml2, they won't work
> very well if they happen to load a BCB version of the DLL.

  Thanks Eric,
 
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Daniel

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