Re: [xml] The issue around LoadLibrary on Windows

[Nikolay Sivov <bunglehead gmail com>]

On 5/23/2012 14:19, Ralf Junker wrote:
> I strongly believe that LoadLibraryW should be used for any Windows
> version that supports it.
Of course it should be preferred if you've got choice.
> The SQLite OS layer for Win32 shows how this can be done. It converts
> UTF-8 to wchar_t* before calling the appropriate function Windows ...W
> functions.
>
> The code is in the public domain. Here is the link to the current version:
>
> http://www.sqlite.org/src/artifact/37e1b92f0fa5edf1955bcd6b04d3e4d8be68ede2
It's not a question how to use MultiByteToWideChar() to do UTF-8 -> 
WCHAR, the question is
does 'name' argument is UTF-8 string or not. By the way, is dlopen() 
supposed to work on UTF-8 input?
I doubt so, and since xmlModuleOpen() has ifdef-ed version for each 
platform, it makes me think
that LoadLibraryA is a valid solution.
> Ralf
>
> On 23.05.2012 11:41, 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.
> > But I'm not a Windows user, and know close to nothing to the platform
> > so I suggest we reopen that debate, or just agree on fixing this.
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