Re: [xml] Linking to dll version of libxml2, et al. with VS 2008

[Jeffrey Schmidt <schmidtj seapine com>]

Thanks so much, that fixed the problem. I would have thought that WinSock would have been one of the 
'default' libraries included by Visual Studio, but I guess not. I suppose that, since not every program uses 
the network, not every program needs to be linked against the socket library.

Jeff Schmidt
Seapine Software, Inc.
Phone: 513.701.1551


-----Original Message-----
From: Csaba Raduly [mailto:rcsaba gmail com] 
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 11:23 AM
To: Jeffrey Schmidt
Cc: xml gnome org
Subject: Re: [xml] Linking to dll version of libxml2, et al. with VS 2008

Hi Jeffrey,

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Jeffrey Schmidt  wrote:
> However, I am getting a bunch of linker errors when building my projects,
> similar to the following examples:
>
> error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__WSAGetLastError 0
> referenced in function _socket_errno                libxml2_a_dll.lib
>
> error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol __imp__closesocket 4 referenced in
> function _xmlNanoHTTPFreeCtxt                libxml2_a_dll.lib

These are WinSock functions; unrelated to MSVCRT. You need to make
sure that your application links to it (I think it's called
WS2_32.lib) in addition to system libraries like KERNEL32, USER23,
GDI32 etc. Maybe it's not added automatically to a new project.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms737629%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

> Additionally, I'm getting a warning (which might be related?):
>
>
>
> warning LNK4098: defaultlib 'MSVCRT' conflicts with use of other libs; use
> /NODEFAULTLIB:library

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6wtdswk0%28v=vs.71%29.aspx
You probably need to ensure that your project is compiled with the
same runtime library that was used with libxml2/iconv/zlib. Check the
readme files that came with your binaries.


Hope this helps,

Csaba
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