bcd.gen: Help wanted with Windows porting

[Gregor Richards]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I doubt that the results are wrong, but I'll bet the memory usage is on 
the bad end of the scale ... do you have a way to test how much memory 
it uses in a run?

  - Gregor Richards

Bradley Smith wrote:
> I made an attempt to build bcd.gen on Windows. Here are my notes.
> 
> 1. The libxml2-2.4.12 at gnuwin32.sourceforge.net appears to be missing 
> xmlReadFile. Instead, used libxml2-2.6.26.win32.zip from 
> http://www.zlatkovic.com/pub/libxml/.
> 
> 2. Converted libxml2.dll to libxml2.lib using implib.exe from 
> DigitalMars. Conversion of lib\libxml2.lib using coeff2omf.exe didn't 
> work because undefined symbols remained.
> 
> 3. Crashes occur when calling free() on char* returned from libxml2. 
> Tried converting free() calls to xmlFree(), but crashes still occured. 
> Subsituting a noop stup for xmlFree() allows bcdgen to run without 
> error, but I can't confirm the result is correct. This problem with 
> calling free() may be a consequence of linking to the libxml2.dll via 
> implib.exe
> 
> 
>   Bradley
> 
> 
> 
> Gregor Richards wrote:
> 
>> As far as I know, there is nothing platform-specific about bcd.gen, 
>> but I have no means of porting it to Windows.
>>
>> So, I need somebody who's fairly good at typing 'make', and perhaps 
>> even editing your path, to see if you can get bcd.gen to compile and 
>> function on Windows.
>>
>> Its two prerequisites are both available in binary form:
>>
>> gccxml: 
>> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctypes/gccxml-20050318-setup.exe?download 
>> (I hope this is recent enough ...)
>>
>> libxml2: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/libxml2.htm
>>
>> Other than that, you should just need 'make'.  Any help 
>> porting/testing would be greatly appreciated.  Please respond either 
>> via email or to the newsgroup.
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards