[Expat-discuss] Expat as a static library in Win32

[Subramanian, Binu]

Hello Fred,

Thank you for the prompt response.
I am sorry, i meant xmlparse.c 
Yes, i have downloaded Expat 1.95.4 for Windows ( July 12,2002 release).
It still compiles to give a dll. How do i convert it to a static lib?
As i mentioned, i changed the project options from _USRDLL to _LIB and
replaced the 

#define XMLPARSEAPI(type) __declspec(dllexport) type __cdecl in xmparse.c
with 

#ifdef _USRDLL
 #define XMLPARSEAPI(type) __declspec(dllexport) type __cdecl
#else
 #define XMLPARSEAPI(type) type __cdecl
#endif

I still get the same error : warning LNK4003: invalid library format;
library ignored

Any ideas/ suggestions will be very useful.

Binu

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. [mailto:fdrake@acm.org]
Sent: 23 July 2002 17:19
To: Subramanian, Binu
Cc: expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Expat-discuss] Expat as a static library in Win32



Subramanian, Binu writes:
 > I want to use expat as a static library. I tried some of the suggestions
 > given on the mailing list...ie
 > replacing the lines in xmlparse.cpp and compiling with the _LIB option
 > instead of the _USRDLL option.

There is no xmlparse.cpp in the current version of Expat; it is
comprised entirely of C code, not C++.  Have you tried a recent
version?  Static libraries are now supported.


  -Fred

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