1:
2: Expat can be built on Windows in three ways:
3: using MS Visual C++ (6.0 or .NET), Borland C++ Builder 5 or Cygwin.
4:
5: * Cygwin:
6: This follows the Unix build procedures.
7:
8: * C++ Builder 5:
9: Possible with make files in the BCB5 subdirectory.
10: Details can be found in the ReadMe file located there.
11:
12: * MS Visual C++ 6:
13: Based on the workspace file expat.dsw. The related project
14: files (.dsp) are located in the lib subdirectory.
15:
16: * MS Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2010:
17: The VC++ 6 workspace file (expat.dsw) and project files (.dsp)
18: can be opened and imported in VS.NET without problems.
19:
20: * All MS C/C++ compilers:
21: The output for all projects will be generated in the win32\bin
22: directory, intermediate files will be located in project-specific
23: subdirectories of win32\tmp.
24:
25: * Creating MinGW dynamic libraries from MS VC++ DLLs:
26:
27: On the command line, execute these steps:
28: pexports libexpat.dll > expat.def
29: pexports libexpatw.dll > expatw.def
30: dlltool -d expat.def -l libexpat.a
31: dlltool -d expatw.def -l libexpatw.a
32:
33: The *.a files are mingw libraries.
34:
35: * Special note about MS VC++ and runtime libraries:
36:
37: There are three possible configurations: using the
38: single threaded or multithreaded run-time library,
39: or using the multi-threaded run-time Dll. That is,
40: one can build three different Expat libraries depending
41: on the needs of the application.
42:
43: Dynamic Linking:
44:
45: By default the Expat Dlls are built to link statically
46: with the multi-threaded run-time library.
47: The libraries are named
48: - libexpat(w).dll
49: - libexpat(w).lib (import library)
50: The "w" indicates the UTF-16 version of the library.
51:
52: One rarely uses other versions of the Dll, but they can
53: be built easily by specifying a different RTL linkage in
54: the IDE on the C/C++ tab under the category Code Generation.
55:
56: Static Linking:
57:
58: The libraries should be named like this:
59: Single-theaded: libexpat(w)ML.lib
60: Multi-threaded: libexpat(w)MT.lib
61: Multi-threaded Dll: libexpat(w)MD.lib
62: The suffixes conform to the compiler switch settings
63: /ML, /MT and /MD for MS VC++.
64:
65: Note: In Visual Studio 2005 (Visual C++ 8.0) and later, the
66: single-threaded runtime library is not supported anymore.
67:
68: By default, the expat-static and expatw-static projects are set up
69: to link statically against the multithreaded run-time library,
70: so they will build libexpatMT.lib or libexpatwMT.lib files.
71:
72: To build the other versions of the static library,
73: go to Project - Settings:
74: - specify a different RTL linkage on the C/C++ tab
75: under the category Code Generation.
76: - then, on the Library tab, change the output file name
77: accordingly, as described above
78:
79: An application linking to the static libraries must
80: have the global macro XML_STATIC defined.
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