1 2Expat can be built on Windows in three ways: 3 using MS Visual C++ (6.0 or .NET), Borland C++ Builder 5 or Cygwin. 4 5* Cygwin: 6 This follows the Unix build procedures. 7 8* C++ Builder 5: 9 Possible with make files in the BCB5 subdirectory. 10 Details can be found in the ReadMe file located there. 11 12* MS Visual C++ 6: 13 Based on the workspace file expat.dsw. The related project 14 files (.dsp) are located in the lib subdirectory. 15 16* MS Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005: 17 The VC++ 6 workspace file (expat.dsw) and project files (.dsp) 18 can be opened and imported in VS.NET without problems. 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