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

Martin Raspe wrote:

> 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. 

Here it is:
xerces.cpp, line 258

/* Get rid of free and malloc defined by perl */
#undef free
#undef malloc
#undef read <--- new
#undef write <--- new

and these errors go away.
But now I see new ones, further down in Xerces.cpp - I guess I'll give 
it up for the moment.

Martin