Re: [xml] The issue around LoadLibrary on Windows



On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Patrick Gansterer wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:16:48 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

* Daniel Veillard wrote:

 C.f. the bug Fix windows unicode build
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638650

and the previous discussions here:

 http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2008-February/msg00094.html

now that the release is done, can we have a final decision on this.
As I understand it, LoadLibraryW takes a wchar_t* parameter, while
internally we are using only a char * (or xmlChar *) so it makes
no sense to try to call LoadLibraryW, and instead of using the
macro LoadLibrary which can only break build, calling LoadLibraryA
seems to be the simplest.


It is not clear to me that building libxml2 with UNICODE defined is a
sound idea if libxml2 is not designed for that


Since it's not designed for UNICODE builds it should ignore the UNICODE
define. But it doesn't at the moment, because the define is used indirectly
by LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress.
Ignoring would allow "UNICODE applications" which need to compile libxml2 in
their project too, adding the UNICODE define for the whole project and don't
need to undefine it for the libxml2 part.

How would that "ignore the UNICODE" work?  Defining UNICODE will cause
the API to do different things.

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