[xml] Re: Still problems when using libxml2 on mingw windows (includes patch)

[Igor Zlatkovic <igor zlatkovic com>]

Roland Schwingel wrote:

> Hi Igor...

Ho Roland,

> I have to confess I am not running directly MSYS/MINGW. I am using cygwin
> and compiling for mingw using gcc -mno-cygwin. In this case it pretty much
> behaves like a normal Windows system, but without having _CYGWIN_ defined.

No, it does not behave like naked Windows. You are still having a POSIX 
layer, just don't link to it's libraries. You should probably do a 
CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' and then run configure. You should in any case run 
the compilation from within the bash shell and use the autoconf facilities.

> When I am compiling with the definitions like in revision 1.10 it compiles
> all
> very well but when using it in some applications the xmlFree() function is
> not accessible it mostly points to invalid memory regions... The real cause
> is hard to track down.

There must be a different reason for that. Gcc in general doesn't need a 
__declspec thing, be it a cygwin or a mingw variant. Gcc exports all 
non-static symbols automatically. (As other compilers should do if I may 
add).

> Hope we can sort this out soon...

Perhaps we can, if you continue playing right. You stated you were using 
mingw and in fact you were not. Your platform has very little to do with 
mingw.

Ciao,
Igor