Re: [xml] conversion to non-scalar type error

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 07, 2011 at 10:38:22PM +0200, Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Earnie wrote:
> > I'm having the following issue related to pthread-win32 which implements
> > pthread_t as a structure.
> >
> > /usr/src/libxslt-1.1.26/xsltproc/testThreads.c: In function 'main':
> > /usr/src/libxslt-1.1.26/xsltproc/testThreads.c:203:6: error: conversion
> > to non-scalar type requested
> [SNIP]
> yes and no
> 1) libxml does not support pthread woe emulation and right configure
> option is --with-threads=win32
> 2) according to discussion on mingw.org pthread-win32 will be used
> only internally for gcc and will not be exposed to users
> 3) attached 0001-minimal-mingw-support.patch
> a) ignore pthread.h detection for mingw* hosts (my build environment
> contain installed pthread-win32 package)
>  b) local fix to my build environment where I use build against
> sources where I use --with-libxml-src. this part is not finished
>
> so 3.a) will depend from 2.
>
> As project manager please could you confirm that mingw.org project
> will provide pthread-win32 package for public use ?
>
> Next step is to port libxslt therad test to native implementation
> and in future to port libxml&libxslt to pthread-win32 as alternative
> implementation.
>
> Could you confirm that libxml work for you with pthread-win32 ?

  Roumen,

 thanks, I applied you patch.
I will make a libxml2 release and a libxslt one during the slowdown
of the following weeks, if you have patches you would like to get pushed
please send them :-)

  thanks !

Daniel

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