I found the problem. It is a little more involved.
Here is the procedure that did not parse correctly:
lines 291-296 of testapi.c:
291: static xmlChar gen_xmlChar(int no, int nr ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED) {
292: if (no == 0) return('a');
293: if (no == 1) return(' ');
294: if (no == 2) return((xmlChar) 'ø');
295: return(0);
296: }
Do you see the small letter "o" with stroke in the character literal in line
294?
This is from Visual C++ 2010 Express Edition. I also opened it in jEdit, which
tells me when files are not in my preferred default of UTF-8. I was able to
confirm that this particular file is in ISO 8859-1 single-byte format.
That means the character is the same as U+00F8. I extracted that much and
checked in a Hex Viewer and it is indeed 0xF8 in that position.
So here is the replacement:
294: if (no == 2) return((xmlChar) 0xF8); /* Small Letter O with Stroke */
That's the name for Unicode code point U+00F8.
It is probably a matter of the compiler being de-railed by non-C-Locale
printable characters or other character-set encoding and detection issues.
You might encounter more of these.
- Dennis
[That was the easy part. I then had to figure out how to rebuild that monster
tar.gz. WinZip will extract them, but not make them. Fortunately, the Windows
7 Ultimate POSIX Subsystem has bash and I
could figure it out reading the man pages for tar and pax (my favorite from
many years ago).
I notice that my file is bigger. It may well be a result of replacing tabs by
spaces in testapi.c, since the growth is by more than 50k bytes in that 1.4MB
file. I didn't attempt to fix that.
You can safely conclude that this is the first time I ever committed anything
to any Apache code base.]
-----Original Message-----
From: Zhe Liu [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 18:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: Compilation error when build libxml2.
I got compilation errors on windows in the module "libxml2".
..\testapi.c(294) : error C2001: newline in constant
..\testapi.c(295) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before 'return'
The cause is that one single quotation mark is missed on the line no.
294 of testapi.c in the
ext_sources\7740a8ec23878a2f50120e1faa2730f2-libxml2-2.7.6.tar.gz.
Anybody can help to fix it? I'm not a committer.
--
Best Regards
>From [email protected]
