On 27 December 2016 at 22:08, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 1:23 AM, Ivan Zhakov <i...@visualsvn.com> wrote: >> >> >> Regarding my current problem: I'm getting the following when I attempt >> to build expat: >> [[[ >> runtestspp.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol >> _align_limit_to_full_utf8_characters referenced in function "void >> __cdecl test_utf8_auto_align(void)" (?test_utf8_auto_align@@YAXXZ) >> [D:\Ivan\SVN\expat-cmake\runtestspp.vcxproj] >> ]]] > > > That's a problem, yes. It looks like a possible expat build issue. Seems > to apply to the expat test suite. You can toggle building tests in expat > and obtain the necessary libs separately. > > I have no such issues; building expat 2.2.0 my working expat is; > > cmake -G "NMake Makefiles" -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=..\thirdparty \ > -D BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo \ > -D CMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE=OFF . > nmake all install > I'm using Visual Studio generator. May be this explains the difference.
> I apply one patch to cmake to compile and link RelWithDebInfo correctly > to emit .pdb's (It hadn't behaved as documented). This all is working > under both Studio 2010 and 2015. > > FWIW - libxml2 is both a supported substitute for expat in apr-2, as well > as a requirement for mod_proxy_html, which is why I'm leaning toward > ignoring expat in the future and having both rely exclusively on libxml2. > Did you measure libxml2 vs expat performance? Btw Subversion depends on libexpat directly because APR doesn't provide SAX XML parser interface. >> > Agreed. But three years down the road, after the expert who hand-crafted >> > a >> > custom .mak solution has moved on to better things and we're on Visual >> > Studio vNext, I'm guessing you'll find the same thing will happen there >> > too >> > -- unless you have a plan in mind to avoid it? >> > >> Well, Visual Studio vNext is going to support CMake builds out of the >> box and it sounds very promising. But I cannot get it work for APR yet >> :( > > Do you have a similar apr example, or is it simply that you got jammed > in expat and couldn't move forwards? > I've just jammed in expat and didn't move forward. > I also have this which illustrates windows builds; > > https://wiki.apache.org/httpd/WindowsTrunkCompilation > > Hope that proves interesting/useful. Thanks for the link. Btw SourceForge now provides URL for unattended package download. For example the following command downloads libexpat 2.2.0: $ curl -L -o expat-2.2.0.tar.bz2 https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.2.0/expat-2.2.0.tar.bz2 -- Ivan Zhakov
