[xml] Borland C++ Builder question

[Stefan Jeglinski <jeglin 4pi com>]

I'm normally doing things in OSX/gcc with very few issues, but I've 
also been tasked with getting our libxml2 stuff building in Borland 
C++ Builder (v5 Professional, with IDE) for a win32 port.

Following the directions in the libxml2 win32 directory was 
straightforward - using bcb I was able to build libxml2, and there is 
no problem including the paths and library, and my xml code now 
compiles and links in my C++ Builder project.

My issue is static linking - the configure.js options only refer to 
linking xmllint statically. As it stands now, bcb creates a 
libxml2.dll which must be placed at my executable's level. My goal is 
to statically link my executable so no libxml2 dll is needed. I've 
set dynruntime= false, but I don't think this is getting me where I 
want to get.

This may be a luser Borland question, or even a luser dll question, 
but I'm not sure (Windows is not my native OS) - I just want to know 
if there are any gotchas on the libxml2 end of things, or whether I 
can tweak the bcc32 switches in the Makefile, or whether this is 
merely a matter of me reading the very fine Borland manual to make it 
work.

Apologies for another newbie question... any tips from Borland users 
are appreciated. Am I even on planet Earth with this question?


Stefan Jeglinski