Re: [xml] Modules support for win32 (was: Re: [PATCH] Build shared library on Win32)

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

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

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