Re: [libxml++] Win32 link error (v0.24.0 + msvc patch)

[Matt E. <ma...@au...>]

Thanks Ephraim! _REENTRANT did the trick.  I think you are correct 
_POSIX_C_SOURCE for unix, since libxml++ compiled with the latest 
libxml on OSX without configuration changes.

On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 11:58  AM, Ephraim Vider wrote:

> The relevant lines from xmlversion.h are:
>
> /**
>  * LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED:
>  *
>  * Whether the thread support is configured in
>  */
> #if 1
> #if defined(_REENTRANT) || (_POSIX_C_SOURCE - 0 >= 199506L)
> #define LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED
> #endif
> #endif
>
>
> If the library is compiled without threads it would say  #if 0 and 
> never
> define LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED
> so:
> In msvc you have to define _REENTRANT to get LIBXML_THREAD_ENABLED when
> thread support is on, and it will have no effect on libxml when thread
> support is off.
>
> On unix machines it may be that the _POSIX_C_SOURCE is automatically 
> defined
> so there is no need to define anything else, but this is just a guess 
> (it is
> so on my linux).