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80 lines
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Executable file
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Expat can be built on Windows in three ways:
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using MS Visual C++ (6.0 or .NET), Borland C++ Builder 5 or Cygwin.
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* Cygwin:
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This follows the Unix build procedures.
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* C++ Builder 5:
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Possible with make files in the BCB5 subdirectory.
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Details can be found in the ReadMe file located there.
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* MS Visual C++ 6:
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Based on the workspace file expat.dsw. The related project
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files (.dsp) are located in the lib subdirectory.
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* MS Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010:
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The VC++ 6 workspace file (expat.dsw) and project files (.dsp)
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can be opened and imported in VS.NET without problems.
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* All MS C/C++ compilers:
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The output for all projects will be generated in the win32\bin
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directory, intermediate files will be located in project-specific
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subdirectories of win32\tmp.
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* Creating MinGW dynamic libraries from MS VC++ DLLs:
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On the command line, execute these steps:
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pexports libexpat.dll > expat.def
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pexports libexpatw.dll > expatw.def
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dlltool -d expat.def -l libexpat.a
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dlltool -d expatw.def -l libexpatw.a
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The *.a files are mingw libraries.
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* Special note about MS VC++ and runtime libraries:
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There are three possible configurations: using the
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single threaded or multithreaded run-time library,
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or using the multi-threaded run-time Dll. That is,
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one can build three different Expat libraries depending
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on the needs of the application.
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Dynamic Linking:
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By default the Expat Dlls are built to link statically
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with the multi-threaded run-time library.
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The libraries are named
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- libexpat(w).dll
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- libexpat(w).lib (import library)
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The "w" indicates the UTF-16 version of the library.
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One rarely uses other versions of the Dll, but they can
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be built easily by specifying a different RTL linkage in
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the IDE on the C/C++ tab under the category Code Generation.
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Static Linking:
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The libraries should be named like this:
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Single-theaded: libexpat(w)ML.lib
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Multi-threaded: libexpat(w)MT.lib
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Multi-threaded Dll: libexpat(w)MD.lib
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The suffixes conform to the compiler switch settings
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/ML, /MT and /MD for MS VC++.
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Note: In Visual Studio 2005 (Visual C++ 8.0) and later, the
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single-threaded runtime library is not supported anymore.
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By default, the expat-static and expatw-static projects are set up
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to link statically against the multithreaded run-time library,
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so they will build libexpatMT.lib or libexpatwMT.lib files.
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To build the other versions of the static library,
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go to Project - Settings:
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- specify a different RTL linkage on the C/C++ tab
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under the category Code Generation.
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- then, on the Library tab, change the output file name
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accordingly, as described above
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An application linking to the static libraries must
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have the global macro XML_STATIC defined.
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