Re: [xml] Modules support for win32

[Roumen Petrov <bugtrack roumenpetrov info>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:03:57AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:00:08PM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:18:53PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > The Fedora MinGW project is cross-compiling ilbxslt from a Fedora host
> > > > to run on Windows.  We had to add the following small patch to
> > > > persuade libtool to build a DLL:
> > > >
> > > > http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/?f=2515b165a5e3;file=libxslt/mingw32-libxslt-1.1.24-win32-shared.patch
> > > the post would be a more natural target for the xslt gnome org list :-)
> > > looks fine, applied and commited. In the past Roumen Petrov has been the
> > > one fixing mingw and espacially cross-compiling issues, so I'm Cc'ing
> > > him in the reply.
> > OK!  I don't think I have any more patches for libxslt anyway - it
> > seems to just work now.
> >
> > On the subject of enabling modules to work in libxml2, I wonder if
> > you've looked at FlexDLL?  It offers a dlopen-like interface for Win32
> > DLLs.
> >
> > http://alain.frisch.fr/flexdll.html
>
>   Libxml2 approach on portability is using the native interface as
> much as possible, we don't add dependancies for portability, because
> in general people just don't want more deps than libxml2 and what
> comes with the native platform.
>   We actually use XMLPUBFUN macro, then mapped to  __declspec(dllexport)
> in the include public headers of libxml2, as a result the functions
> are accessible if a module is loaded with LoadLibrary(), I guess it
> removes most of the specifics that flexdll uses to mimics dlopen()
>
> Daniel

Dunno why Richard build fail to enable modules in case of cross-compilation.

Roumen