Re: [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.

duh - it seems that all I need to do (?) is use the libxml2_a library 
instead of the libxml2 library.... unless I'm still missing 
something, sorry for wasting the list's bandwidth.


Stefan Jeglinski