Windows XP. （My system locale is Chinese. Maybe it's the cause. The different code page of system maybe lead compiler not to read source code correctly.） Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition Cygwin 1.7.9-1
2011/12/14 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > 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 > > -- Best Regards >From [email protected]
