On 03.06.2016 11:51, Fabrice Manfroi wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to build the last libxml2 version (2.9.4) with an old Visual
> Studio version (2005, 2008 and 2010) and I get the following errors:
>
> ===
>
> ..\relaxng.c(2218) : error C2275: 'xmlChar' : illegal use of this type
> as an expression
>
> [snip]
>
> ..\xmlschemas.c(3172) : error C2275: 'xmlChar' : illegal use of this
> type as an expression
>
> ===
>
> It could be easily fixed like illustrated in the attached patch.
>
> If you could have a look...
>
> {
> char msg[1000];
> + xmlChar *result=NULL;
>
> if (arg1 == NULL)
> arg1 = BAD_CAST "";
> @@ -2215,7 +2216,7 @@
> snprintf(msg, 1000, "Unknown error code %d\n", err);
> }
> msg[1000 - 1] = 0;
> - xmlChar *result = xmlCharStrdup(msg);
> + result = xmlCharStrdup(msg);
> return (xmlEscapeFormatString(&result));
This makes sense, I think this is worth fixing. I suggest to tweak a
patch a bit - remove initializers you don't need, and keep variable
scope as it is here:
> if (expected) {
> msg = xmlStrcat(msg, BAD_CAST " Expected is '");
> - xmlChar *expectedEscaped = xmlCharStrdup(expected);
> + expectedEscaped = xmlCharStrdup(expected);
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