Re: Unable to compile XML::Xerces-2.4.0 under Windows

Jason E. Stewart wrote:

>>1.
>>xercesc\internal\XSerializeEngine.hpp
>>complains about macros "read" and "write" not having the proper number
>>of arguments (in fact, they are method names). I don't know where
>>these macros get defined (probably somewhere in MS VC), but the errors
>>go away if I put
>>
>>#undef read
>>#undef write
>>
>>in the first line of "XSerializeEngine.hpp".

> Not sure about this one. 

I found it: "read" and "write" get declared in
perl/lib/CORE/win32IOp.h (this is Perl 5.6)

#define read(fd,b,s)		win32_read(fd,b,s)
#define write(fd,b,s)		win32_write(fd,b,s)

What I haven't found is where to switch it off with an #undef in 
Xerces.cpp. I wonder why it happens at all - shouldn't the methods be 
part of the Xerces namespace after all?

> 1) I don't like solutions that require changing the Xerces-C
> code. 

Neither do I.

Martin