[Vortex] win2K and Channel DTD

[Francis Brosnan Blazquez]

> Hello Francis,

Hi Fred,

> I'm using the binary distribution of LibVortex (version 1.0.15)
> 
> I narrowed the trouble to a probable bad behaviour in the functions
> axl_stream_strdup_printfv and axl_stream_strdup_printf_len which look
> to
> behave differently on Win2K than XP.

Ok.

> To have a correct behaviour I did rebuild LibAxl using the Visual C++
> solution but modified the it:
> 
> In the axl_config.h I file I commented the following lines 
> //#define AXL_OS_UNIX (0)
> //#define AXL_HAVE_VASPRINTF (0)
> As my target platform is WIN32 and not using gcc it make sense :)

;-) Ok. Just to note inside the distribution it is included a static
version of axl_config.h for the windows platform: axl_config_win32.h.
You only need to rename it to axl_config.h during the compile process. 

> Next I've modified the project properties:
> 
> I added the following preprocessor definitions :
> _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE (to get ride of the junk produced by visual
> about
> deprecated functions)
> AXL_OS_WIN32 

OK.

> It seems to work but as I'm not the dev. using your lib I don't really
> know
> if it can break things as I've no idea of potential side effect.

To check if your axl build is right, you can use the regression test
located at test/test_01.c. Inside the windows installer, it is also
included. 

However, I don't see which is the change that makes your build to work.
It is a matter of the compiler? or because adding
_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE? Can you provide more details about this?

Thanks for reporting Fred. Cheers!

> Cheers
> Fred
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Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis at aspl.es>