bcd.gen: Help wanted with Windows porting

[Bradley Smith]

I don't have an accurate way of measuring the memory used, but it 
appears to use about 70-80 M.

   Bradley


Gregor Richards wrote:
> 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