Re: [xml] libxml2-2.7.8 and MinGW

[Earnie <earnie users sourceforge net>]

Roumen Petrov wrote:
> Earnie wrote:
> > Earnie wrote:
> > > Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > > > Earnie wrote:
> [SNIP]
> > > As discussed on the MinGW list here are the patches for both libxml2 and
> > > libxslt adorning dllexport with extern for both __CYGWIN__ and
> > > __MINGW32__.
> > >
> > > During the discussion on the MinGW list we discovered the following bit
> > > of information about dllexport:
> > >
> > > From:
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y4h7bcy6.aspx
> > >
> > > The use of dllexport implies a definition, while dllimport implies a
> > > declaration. You must use the extern keyword with dllexport to force a
> > > declaration; otherwise, a definition is implied.
> > And now with attachments.
>
> About libxslt patch:
> Changes in  libexslt/exsltexports.h and libxslt/xsltexports.h break
> static only build.

How should that happen?  I'll check it out soon.

> Update in tests/plugins/testplugin.c is fine.  In addition for mingw*
> hosts attached "0001-build-test-plugin-for-mingw-host.patch" is required :
>   WIN32_EXTRA_LDFLAGS add no-undefined and this will allow plugin to be
> build as shared library and test pass.

And this one.  Note -no-undefined is a libtool option while
--no-undefined is an ld option which is on by default for MinGW.

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