On 12/14/11 7:27 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
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.
it would be good to know on which system you have the build problems. I know several people who built on Windows 7 frequently and it worked.
Juergen
