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

["Martin Schlemmer" <Martin Schlemmer nwu ac za>]

> > > On 2009/11/09 at 10:53 PM, Roumen Petrov <bugtrack roumenpetrov info> wrote:
> Igor Zlatkovic wrote:
> > On 05/11/09 12:50, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > 3. You may alter the output files on Windows, such as naming them
> > differently (when I last tried, MSYS+MinGW produced a libxml2-2.dll, not
> > the hoped for libxml2.dll). This is okay. As an orientation: If some
> > greedy corporation must recompile all their Windows software for the new
> > libxml2 release, that I don't care about. But if Tor Lillqvist can use
> > the thing for his GTK and GIMP work without having to tweak it and thus
> > be able to spend more time with his children, I am all in :)
>
> if we use libtool flag -avoid-version the dll will be created without
> version number in name. I propose a patch t
>
> This year issue with patch (use more compatible autotools based build
> system for windows hosts) is closed with resolution "Not GNOME" (!).

I would suggest splitting the patch into different ones that only handle one issue 
at a time, and then sending them here to be reviewed.  Hopefully this is the preferred
method for libxml.

I can however point out that at least the $(EXEEXT) bits might be bogus, as it would
seem to only affect things if cross-compiled to win32 on a non-win32 host.  Here on
a Windows host with MSYS it works fine, as the convenience wrappers have a .exe
extension.  So it might rather be a libtool issue when cross-compiling, although I
do not have that much experience in this field.


Regards,
Martin


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