Re: [xml] [PATCH] Windows build fixes

[Earnie Boyd <earnie users sourceforge net>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>
> > > Ok It was not tested with so old compilers.
> >
> >
> > IMO, it should not be.  MSVC6 is near dead.  I suppose it would depend on
> > if you want to support Windows 95 and before.
>
>
> MSVC6 is still used as a production compiler by my employer. If you want to
> link against MSVCRT.DLL and not MSVCR70.DLL or newer, and can't use MinGW
> for whatever reason, then it's the only real option you have.

Then I suggest you create a library to import the symbols you need.
You can create a .def file to create an import library that creates a
linked alias so that _vsnprintf maps to vsnprintf or vice versa.  See
http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.20/ld/WIN32.html for the
documentation on it.

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