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

[Roland Schwingel <Roland Schwingel onevision de>]

Hi Igor...

xml-admin gnome org wrote on 06.03.2004 12:22:13:

> > 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.
Well... I doing exactly this "gcc -mno-cygwin". The resulting libxml2 dll
has absolutely no references to cygwin1.dll

Anyway the dll is absolutely ok, as far as I can see, no matter with which
version of the xmlexports.h file it gets compiled. When writing a program
that interfaces libxml2 the problems arises due to the IMHO missing dll
stuff when compiling the code that includes xmlexports.h.
By then xmlFree() is broken.

It is obviously not only me having this problem. Kenneth Haley  had
obviously
the same problem. His patch in Revision 1.9 of the file is identical to
mine.

He also filed a bugreport:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128786

Ciao,

Roland