how to compile xerces-c using mingw32 ?

[hongxing]

I want to use C::B in windows and linux, the problem is my app use xerces-c as xml parsing.
I linux, I can using GNU make to compile xerces-c, when coming to Windows, I have to use mingw32.

my question is how to compile xerces-c using mingw32 in windows ? has anyone do that?

[mandrav]

my question is how to compile xerces-c using mingw32 in windows ? has anyone do that?

I have and it's not trivial...

[rickg22]

I'd use TinyXML, but if you need a good parser, why not use libxml2?

[hongxing]

It is not a new project, I am now porting it to windows 2000
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tinyXML can not support Unicode, so I can not use characters like Chinese, Korean.
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libxml2 is simple and high performance ? can it support Chinese/Korean characters? if is , why C::B not using it but tinyXML?
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can libxml2 be compiled under mingw32?

[takeshimiya]

tinyXML is used in C::B because of it's simplicity and little overhead, it's not even a library, in fact it's only 3 .h/.cpp straight files.

As for other XML libraries, it depends on your needings, but you might want to look here:
http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/features200402/index.html
http://xmlbench.sourceforge.net/results/benchmark200402/index.html

Xerces doesn't seems to be bad, but the binary size is HUGE and it's rather slow.
If I have to choose, I would choose libxml2 as rickg22 suggests, because it's well-featured and with good performance and library size overall.

[rickg22]

If I recall correctly, libxml2 also needs libiconv for the handling of unicode. But then again, i never used libxml2. I just know PHP uses it.

[rickg22]

Update: Check out this thread at the mingw mailing list.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=1225103

Hmmm... it appears Xerces-C can be compiled with GCC. But I'm not sure... are you sure there's not a makefile around?

[thomas]

tinyXML can not support Unicode, so I can not use characters like Chinese, Korean.

Not true. tinyXML has been supporting UTF-8 for one and a half years.