[Python-Dev] xmlparse.c no longer compiles on Windows

[David LeBlanc]

Worked for me: expat-1.95.5 and VC 6sp5 (or sp6?) using the .dsw in the .bin
distro for windows.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-dev-admin@python.org [mailto:python-dev-admin@python.org]On
> Behalf Of Tim Peters
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 18:39
> To: PythonDev
> Subject: [Python-Dev] xmlparse.c no longer compiles on Windows
>
>
> It starts with this:
>
> /* Handle the case where memmove() doesn't exist. */
> #ifndef HAVE_MEMMOVE
> #ifdef HAVE_BCOPY
> #define memmove(d,s,l) bcopy((s),(d),(l))
> #else
> #error memmove does not exist on this platform, nor is a substitute
> available
> #endif /* HAVE_BCOPY */
> #endif /* HAVE_MEMMOVE */
>
>
> memmove() is a std C function, and Python requires std C, so there's no
> point to this block.  Neither of the symbols are defined on Windows, and I
> don't want to define them -- other parts of Python use memmove() freely
> (like listobject.c).
>
>
> If that's ripped out, there are lots of syntax errors in xmlparse.c (over
> 100, at which point the compiler gives up on it).  They have the character
> of cascading msgs due to some macro confusion; the first one is here:
>
> typedef struct prefix {
>   const XML_Char *name;
>   BINDING *binding;
> } PREFIX;                         The error msg points to this line
>
> and gives the unhepful msg
>
> C:\Code\python\Modules\expat\xmlparse.c(142) : error C2059: syntax
>     error : 'string'
>
> I assume this is because PREFIX is a macro used by Modules/getpath.c, and
> PC/pyconfig.h defines it like so:
>
> #define PREFIX ""
>
>
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