Re: [xml] MSYS and MINGW: undefined reference to _imp__xmlFree

[Daniel Richard G. <oss teragram com>]

On Fri, 9 Nov 2012, Mike Peat wrote:

> I am trying to do that under MinGW/MSys (having had no joy with MSVC due 
> to msvcrt.dll incompatibilities), but am running into the error 
> "undefined reference to _imp__xmlFree". If anybody knows how to solve 
> this problem then I would be extremely grateful if they would let me 
> know how.

That's a sign that you compiled LibXML2 as a static library, but compiled 
your application to consume LibXML2 as a DLL. When "_imp_" is prepended to 
a function name, that means the function lives (or is expected to live) in 
a DLL.

Try compiling your application with -DLIBXML_STATIC.


--Daniel


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