[xml] LIBXML MINGW GCC compilation errors

["Maz Saeed" <maz eyeconsystems com>]

Dear LibXml community,
I'm having issues compiling the LIBXML (libxml2-2.7.8.win32) with GCC compiler. I've linked 
libxml2_a_dll.lib library and the appropriate header files in my project but getting these errors:

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||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
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||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" 
/DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
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||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" 
/DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
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||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" 
/DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"uuid.lib" /DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" 
/DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
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||Warning: .drectve `/DEFAULTLIB:"MSVCRT" /DEFAULTLIB:"OLDNAMES" ' unrecognized|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\valid.obj):..\valid.c:
(.text[_xmlValidBuildContentModel]+0x6)||undefined reference to `_chkstk'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\valid.obj):..\valid.c:
(.text[_xmlValidateElementContent]+0x6)||undefined reference to `_chkstk'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:(.data+0xec)||undefined
 reference to 
`gzopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlWrapGzOpenUtf8]+0xf)||undefined reference to `gzopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlWrapGzOpenUtf8]+0x6b)||undefined reference to `gzdopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlInitPlatformSpecificIo]+0x75)||undefined reference to `gzopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlGzfileOpen_real]+0x25)||undefined reference to `gzdopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlGzfileOpenW]+0x42)||undefined reference to `gzdopen'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlGzfileRead]+0x11)||undefined reference to `gzread'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlGzfileWrite]+0x11)||undefined reference to `gzwrite'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlGzfileClose]+0x7)||undefined reference to `gzclose'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlFreeZMemBuff]+0x13)||undefined reference to `deflateEnd'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlCreateZMemBuff]+0xa8)||undefined reference to `deflateInit2_'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlCreateZMemBuff]+0x102)||undefined reference to `crc32'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlZMemBuffAppend]+0x52)||undefined reference to `deflate'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlZMemBuffAppend]+0x6b)||undefined reference to `crc32'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlZMemBuffGetContent]+0x34)||undefined reference to `deflate'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[___xmlParserInputBufferCreateFilename]+0xad)||undefined reference to `gzdirect'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xmlIO.obj):..\xmlIO.c:
(.text[_xmlFreeHTTPWriteCtxt]+0x2d)||undefined reference to `deflateEnd'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlIconvWrapper]+0x59)||undefined reference to `libiconv'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlCharEncCloseFunc]+0x2b)||undefined reference to `libiconv_close'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlCharEncCloseFunc]+0x49)||undefined reference to `libiconv_close'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlByteConsumed]+0x6)||undefined reference to `_chkstk'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0xd2)||undefined reference to `libiconv_open'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0xdf)||undefined reference to `libiconv_open'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0xf8)||undefined reference to `libiconv_open'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0x111)||undefined reference to `libiconv_open'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0x137)||undefined reference to `libiconv_close'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\encoding.obj):..\encoding.c:
(.text[_xmlFindCharEncodingHandler]+0x13d)||undefined reference to `libiconv_close'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xpath.obj):..\xpath.c:
(.text[_xmlXPathFormatNumber]+0xa4)||undefined reference to `_ftol2'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xpath.obj):..\xpath.c:
(.text[_xmlXPathFormatNumber]+0x1a4)||undefined reference to `_ftol2'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xpath.obj):..\xpath.c:
(.text[_xmlXPathIsPositionalPredicate]+0x3c)||undefined reference to `_ftol2'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xpath.obj):..\xpath.c:
(.text[_xmlXPathFloorFunction]+0x6a)||undefined reference to `_ftol2'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\xpath.obj):..\xpath.c:
(.text[_xmlXPathCeilingFunction]+0x6e)||undefined reference to `_ftol2'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_socket_errno]+0x2)||undefined reference to `_imp__WSAGetLastError 0'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPCleanup]+0x28)||undefined reference to `_imp__WSACleanup 0'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPFreeCtxt]+0xcb)||undefined reference to `inflateEnd'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPFreeCtxt]+0xee)||undefined reference to `_imp__closesocket 4'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPSend]+0x36)||undefined reference to `_imp__send 16'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPSend]+0x67)||undefined reference to `_imp__WSAGetLastError 0'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPSend]+0x72)||undefined reference to `_imp__WSAGetLastError 0'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPSend]+0xb0)||undefined reference to `_imp__select 20'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPRecv]+0xe9)||undefined reference to `_imp__recv 16'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPRecv]+0x105)||undefined reference to `_imp__WSAGetLastError 0'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPRecv]+0x164)||undefined reference to `_imp__select 20'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPReadLine]+0x6)||undefined reference to `_chkstk'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPScanAnswer]+0x449)||undefined reference to `inflateInit2_'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt]+0xf)||undefined reference to `_imp__socket 12'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt]+0x4a)||undefined reference to `_imp__ioctlsocket 12'|
..\..\IBM_Laptop\Borland\XML\LIBXML2\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\libxml2-2.7.8.win32\lib\libxml2_a_dll.lib(int.a.dll.msvc\nanohttp.obj):..\nanohttp.c:
(.text[_xmlNanoHTTPConnectAttempt]+0x68)||undefined reference to `_imp__connect 12'|
||More errors follow but not being shown.|
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||=== Build finished: 50 errors, 36 warnings (0 minutes, 2 seconds) ===|

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Can someone please help with troubleshooting the compiler errors. I'm using the mingw32-g++ compiler.

Thanks in advance
--Maz