Re: [xml] The issue around LoadLibrary on Windows

[Patrick Gansterer <paroga paroga com>]

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.

-- Patrick