Re: [xml] libxml2-2.7.8 and MinGW

[Earnie <earnie users sourceforge net>]

Earnie wrote:
> Roumen Petrov wrote:
> > Earnie wrote:
> > > Earnie wrote:
> > > > I've been building libxml2-2.7.8 and have been having a heck of
> > > > a time getting xmlcatalog to work with a shared DLL library.
> > > > I've finally confirmed that the issue is caused by optimizations
> > > > with -O2 or -O1. If I use -O0 the issue goes away. The effect is
> > > > the xmlIsPubidChar_tab array is seen by xmlcatalog to contain all
> > > > 0x00 values. I'm using GCC-4.6.1 and binutils-2.21.53.20110804
> > > > as delivered by MinGW. I wanted give this list a report of what
> > > > I've found in the event others come by, they may have already.
> > hmm ,
> >
> > Look like regression as it is fine with me for gcc/binutils: -
> > 3.4.5/2.17.50 20070129 - 4.4.0/2.19.1
> It was Kai Tietz who is active in GCC development for Windows and one of
> its maintainers who pointed me to the issue resolution.
>
> See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.mingw.user/38000 for the
> discussion.
>
> > > The attached small patch resolves this issue.
> > >
> > > It was however suggested that XMLPUBVAR_DEF be created for the
> > > '__declspec(dllexport) extern' and XMLPUBVAR_DEF be used in the
> > > header fiel while XMLPUBVAR be used in the code. Since XMLPUBVAR
> > > isn't used in the code I chose the simpler patch. The patch also
> > > removes some warnings I was seeing during the build.
> > Please post at least one for information.
> If the post link to the thread doesn't give you enough please let me
> know what else you need.
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