Re: [xml] Problem with MSYS and MINGW: undefined reference to _imp__xmlFree

[Belgabor <belgabor gmx de>]

If you already use MSYS/MinGW, why don't you build libxml2 yourself? 
I've been doing that for quite some time and (if I set the correct 
defines) never had that issue.

Cheers,
Tobias

Friedrich Beckmann schrieb:
> Hi Roumen,
>
> i searched the mingw wiki and they say that the import
> libraries are not compatible between MSVC and MINGW.
> I described it in the bugzilla:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561340
> There are ways to convert between the two, so I guess it
> would be very good if the mingw import library could be
> added to the package in the future. I you look for example
> at the glib package, they do it like that.
>
> Regards
>
> Friedrich
>
> Roumen Petrov schrieb:
> > Friedrich Beckmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > i digged in the dirt and I guess I found that the reason is that the
> > > libxml2.lib import library is not compatible with MINGW.
> > > I described the solution here: 
> > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561340
> > >
> > > I thought that they are compatible but it seems they are not.
> >
> > May be is bug in binutils for mingw32 host.
> >
> > Please, could you report in mingw32 bug tracking system and to close 
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561340.
> >
> > Roumen
>
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