Don- Yeah, I'd really appreciate you sending me the BCB5 compiled library, that would make my life considerably easier, thank you!
--Nick At 06:31 AM 10/26/01 -0400, you wrote: >Nick, > >Your comments aren't stupid or ignorant. Transforming a BCB project into >a usable make file is a function better left for the IDE to >perform. Rather than working off the BCB4 project (which is badly out of >date), you might want to pull the BCB5 make file (not the project file) >from the CVS source tree and modify it to remove the VCL dependencies. > >I am aware of the inability to build Xerces with BCC. When I upgraded the >Xerces build environment to build with BCB5, I didn't do the final step to >remove the dependency on the VCL. It's on my todo list. I hope to >attempt this in the near future if time permits, but it won't make it into >version 1.5.2 that should occur in the very near future. > >Converting COFF to OMF formats is at best, an occasionally reliable >process as you are probably aware. It is understandable that it only >seems to work for the simplest of object files. COFF is a moving >target. Basically you asking for the conversion program to implement >every VC++ object file record format and transform it into an OMF >equivalent, if one exists. > >In the mean time, if you want a copy of the compiled library, please send >me email. Zipped up, its 527Kb and was built this morning from the latest >CVS source tree. > >Hope this helps, >Don > >At 03:44 PM 10/25/2001 -0400, you wrote: >>Hi, I hope I don't come off as sounding stupid or ridiculously ignorant, >>but I can't for the life of me figure out why I can not compile Xerces >>client programs, or even Xerces itself, with the free Borland C++ 5.5 compiler. >> >> >>Compiling the Examples: >> >>When attempting to compile client programs, I'm scolded with the infamous >>"Unresolved External" errors. I understand this means that there is an >>error in the OMF import library I'm trying to use. I've tried >>"implib"ing the Xerces DLLs. This proved ineffective in fending off >>those "unresolved externals". Next I tried using Borland's "COFF2OMF" >>program to convert the import libraries supplied with the Xerces package >>into usable OMF import libraries. Again, failure. I decided that the >>only way I could think of to get rid of these blasted errors was to >>compile the Xerces library source with BCC, because I figured there may >>have been a Visual C++ induced annoyance in the DLL supplied with the package. >> >> >>Compiling the Xerces Source: >> >>Frustrated over my inability to compile the sample programs that came in >>the Xerces package, I attempted to compile the Xerces source. And what >>did I find when I unzipped the Xerces-src package? I found nice little >>project files supporting various C++ compilers, but not the one I was >>trying to use. True, there is the BCB4 project, which almost worked >>except for the fact that the free Borland compiler does not come with the >>VCL library, which is necessary to compile the Xerces BCB project. I had >>not lost hope just yet, as I could think of a few different ways in which >>I could perhaps avoid the VCL libraries, or perhaps even download >>them. Alas, all my efforts were for not, and I finally accepted defeat. >> >> >>Now I plead with thee, if you good people could help me resolve my >>problem, I would be in your debt. >> >>Thank You. >> >> >>--Nick >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
