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RE: Compiling Subversion on Windows

by Brad Lemings :: Rate this Message:

The __imp_ prefixes mean that the linker is looking for a DLL. For static linking, the XML_STATIC macro has to be defined in the code that links to Expat.

My solution for this problem: configure with the --without-neon option. :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Raymond [mailto:markr@...]
> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 12:51 PM
> To: users@...
> Subject: Compiling Subversion on Windows
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been attempting to compile Subversion on Windows (64-bit). I've been
> able to solve most of the issues I had when compiling, but there's just one
> file left that is refusing to compile - libsvn_ra-1.dll.
> The build environment is Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 64-bit, using the
> x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt.
>
> I get the following error at the link stage:
>
> libneon.lib(ne_openssl.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> SSL_SESSION_cmp referenced in function ne__negotiate_ssl
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_GetCurrentLineNumber referenced in function
> ne_xml_currentline
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_ErrorString referenced in function ne_xml_parse
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_GetErrorCode referenced in function ne_xml_parse
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_Parse referenced in function ne_xml_parse
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_ParserFree referenced in function ne_xml_destroy
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_SetXmlDeclHandler referenced in function ne_xml_create
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_SetUserData referenced in function ne_xml_create
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_SetCharacterDataHandler referenced in function
> ne_xml_create
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_SetElementHandler referenced in function ne_xml_create
> libneon.lib(ne_xml.obj) : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol
> __imp_XML_ParserCreate referenced in function ne_xml_create
> ..\..\..\Release\subversion\libsvn_ra\libsvn_ra-1.dll : fatal error LNK1120:
> 11 unresolved externals
>
> I've checked xml.lib (from expat, in apr-util), which is where I think these
> symbols should be, and it contains the symbols but without the __imp_ at
> the beginning.
> I guess this is some issue with name mangling, but I don't really know how to
> approach solving it!
>
> Thanks,
> Mark.

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