Re: xpcomglue_s_nomozalloc.lib compiled with wchar_t as builtin type

Jacek Caban <[email protected]> Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:52:33 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.embedding
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/22/11 08:27, ola oli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile my addons with the latest xulrunner 7.0 and
> encountering linker errors.
> I just check the the xpcomglue_s_nomozalloc.lib file for sdk/
> xulrunner-7.0a2.en-US.win32. I can see that its built with a different
> configuration than version 6.0.
>
> In version 6.0 library
> definition           :BeginReading@nsAString@@QBEPBGXZ    ("/
> Zc:wchar_t-")
> Whereas in  version 7.0 definition
> is  :BeginReading@nsAString@@QBEPB_WXZ
>
> I am pretty sure that this means that in 7.0, it was built with
> builtin wchar_t (WXZ)  whereas the version 6.0 it is built with no
> builtin wchar_t(GXZ).
>
> Is this intentional? Any reason for this?
>

Yes, it was intentional (although import library mismatch is a side 
effect), see bug 508905.

Jacek