bcd.gen: Help wanted with Windows porting

[Bradley Smith]

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