[xsd-users] Undefined reference error

David White dawhite32 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 07:42:00 EST 2008


Hi Boris,

thanks for your reply.  Unfortunately, rebuilding xerces as you suggest
below did not solve the problem.  Rather, I now have 12 undefined
references.

Kind regards, David.

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> David White <dawhite32 at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Try to compile using gcc-built xerces library:
> > 1. Download xerces-c-3.0.0 source.
> > 2. Configure and make using MinGW and MSYS, via:
> >
> > $ export XERCESROOT="D:\\downloads\\xerces\\xerces-c-3.0.0\\"
> > $ ./configure --enable-transcoder-windows --host=i686-mingw32
> > LDFLAGS=-no-undefined CPPFLAGS="-DXERCES_BUILDING_LIBRARY
> > -DXERCES_USE_TRANSCODER_WINDOWS -DXERCES_USE_WIN32_MSGLOADER
> > -DXERCES_USE_NETACCESSOR_WINSOCK -DXERCES_USE_FILEMGR_WINDOWS
> > -DXERCES_USE_MUTEXMGR_WINDOWS -DXERCES_PATH_DELIMITER_BACKSLASH
> > -DHAVE_STRICMP -DHAVE_STRNICMP -DHAVE_LIMITS_H -DHAVE_SYS_TIMEB_H
> > -DHAVE_FTIME -DHAVE_WCSUPR -DHAVE_WCSLWR -DHAVE_WCSICMP -DHAVE_WCSNICMP"
> > (see attached run_config)
> >
> > NOTE: Followed instructions in
> > http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/build-3.html
> > NOTE: Preprocessor definitions obtained from MSVC8 vcproj file
> > NOTE: xerces-c-3.0.0 compiles with no errors.
>
> I think your problem is with the Xerces-C++ build. First of all,
> you don't need any of the preprocessor defines -- the build system
> will determine which ones are required automatically (and by defining
> those that are not required, you can actually end up with a broken
> build).
>
> Secondly, I suggest that you start with a static library since it
> appears that MinGW has problems with DLL building more often than
> not. If that works, you can try to build a DLL and see how it goes.
> So to build libxerces-c.lib, do the following (you don't need to
> set XERCESROOT anymore):
>
> $ ./configure --disable-shared LDFLAGS=-no-undefined
> $ make
>
> Let me know if this doesn't help.
>
> Boris
>



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