1 2 Expat can be built on Windows in two ways: 3 using MS Visual Studio .NET or Cygwin. 4 5 * Cygwin: 6 This follows the Unix build procedures. 7 8 * MS Visual Studio 2013, 2015 and 2017: 9 A solution file for Visual Studio 2013 is provided: expat.sln. 10 The associated project files (*.vcxproj) reside in the appropriate 11 project directories. This solution file can be opened in VS 2015 or VS 2017 12 and should be upgraded automatically if VS 2013 is not also installed. 13 Note: Tests have their own solution files. 14 15 * All MS C/C++ compilers: 16 The output for all projects will be generated in the win32\bin 17 directory, intermediate files will be located in project-specific 18 subdirectories of win32\tmp. 19 20 * Creating MinGW dynamic libraries from MS VC++ DLLs: 21 22 On the command line, execute these steps: 23 pexports libexpat.dll > expat.def 24 pexports libexpatw.dll > expatw.def 25 dlltool -d expat.def -l libexpat.a 26 dlltool -d expatw.def -l libexpatw.a 27 28 The *.a files are mingw libraries. 29 30 * Special note about MS VC++ and runtime libraries: 31 32 There are three possible configurations: using the 33 single threaded or multithreaded run-time library, 34 or using the multi-threaded run-time Dll. That is, 35 one can build three different Expat libraries depending 36 on the needs of the application. 37 38 Dynamic Linking: 39 40 By default the Expat Dlls are built to link statically 41 with the multi-threaded run-time library. 42 The libraries are named 43 - libexpat(w).dll 44 - libexpat(w).lib (import library) 45 The "w" indicates the UTF-16 version of the library. 46 47 One rarely uses other versions of the Dll, but they can 48 be built easily by specifying a different RTL linkage in 49 the IDE on the C/C++ tab under the category Code Generation. 50 51 Static Linking: 52 53 The libraries should be named like this: 54 Single-theaded: libexpat(w)ML.lib 55 Multi-threaded: libexpat(w)MT.lib 56 Multi-threaded Dll: libexpat(w)MD.lib 57 The suffixes conform to the compiler switch settings 58 /ML, /MT and /MD for MS VC++. 59 60 Note: In Visual Studio 2005 (Visual C++ 8.0) and later, the 61 single-threaded runtime library is not supported anymore. 62 63 By default, the expat-static and expatw-static projects are set up 64 to link statically against the multithreaded run-time library, 65 so they will build libexpatMT.lib or libexpatwMT.lib files. 66 67 To build the other versions of the static library, 68 go to Project - Settings: 69 - specify a different RTL linkage on the C/C++ tab 70 under the category Code Generation. 71 - then, on the Library tab, change the output file name 72 accordingly, as described above 73 74 An application linking to the static libraries must 75 have the global macro XML_STATIC defined. 76
