reactos/lib/3rdparty/expat/win32/README.txt

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   2 Expat 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.