[Expat-discuss] Problems building expat xml parser (Solaris 8, Sun Forte C++ 6 Up date 2)

[Edward Chan]

Hi there,

I'm new to the list, so hopefully I'm sending this to the right list.  Anyway, I'm trying to build the expat xml parser on Solaris 5.8, using Sun's Forte C++ 6 Update 2 compiler, but having some difficulty.  However, I was able to build it on a different solaris box, with a different compiler.  I think that box was Solaris 5.5.1 and the compiler version was version 4.2.

I get some link errors when trying to link with libexpat.a when building xmlwf.  And though I don't need the xmlwf program (I don't even know what it is), I do need to link my program with libexpat.a (and I get the same link error as when building xmlwf).  The errors are:

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CC -O2 -Ixmltok -Ixmlparse -DXML_NS -DXML_DTD -DXML_BYTE_ORDER=21 -o xmlwf/xmlwf xmlwf/xmlwf.o  xmlwf/xmlfile.o  xmlwf/codepage.o  xmlwf/unixfilemap.o xmlparse/libexpat.a
Undefined                       first referenced
 symbol                             in file
XmlInitUnknownEncodingNS            xmlparse/libexpat.a(xmlparse.o)
XmlInitUnknownEncoding              xmlparse/libexpat.a(xmlparse.o)
ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to xmlwf/xmlwf
*** Error code 1
make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `xmlwf/xmlwf'
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If I do not define XML_NS, then I get rid of the first undefined symbol (XmlInitUnknownEncodingNS), but the second one (XmlInitUnknownEncoding) remains.

But eventhough I was able to get rid of the first undefined symbol, I question why I was able to build it on the other machine, but not on this machine (following the exact same steps).

Does anybody have any ideas?  Thanks.

Ed
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