Re: [xml] Windows XP x64 libxml

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:29:30PM -0800, Cory Nelson wrote:
> On 11/7/06, Mari Kotlov <mkotlov gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Has anyone attempted to port libxml to windows XP x64? I am currently
> > porting some C++ code which links with xmlparse.lib library. If anyone has
> > xmlparse.dll and .lib for Win x64 platform, could you please let me know?
> > Alternatively, I don't mind compiling the sources for x64 platform, but I
> > couldn't find the entire source code (the one that includes .c files in
> > addition to .h). Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Libxml compiles and runs fine for me on XP and Vista x64.  I have not
> used the xmlparse library.
>
> My only issue has been with xmlReaderForMemory - you can't use it with
> a huge memory mapped file because it doesn't take size_t for length
> like it should.

  Hum .... good point, I have made tests parsing > 4Gig files on 32bits
computers, but I never expected real XML files to go over 4GB (mea culpa),
and I'm afraid we might have some 32bit limits embedded in exported data
structure (though most of the _xmlParserInput is actually using
const xmlChar * to reference to data to that should work over 4GB.) 
  If it was only a problem of providing a new API I would do it without 
any hesitation, but I'm not sure this could be made to work really without
breaking ABI compatibility.
  If someone want to look at this, this sounds a good idea !

Daniel

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