Can Xalan be compiled with unicode support on VS2005

[Kelvin <ke...@gmail.com>]

Hi there,

Just want to know if Xalan can be compiled with unicode support on VS2005 ?

I tried today, but failed with the following mesasges:

CreateFileW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char *const ' to 'LPCWSTR'


Thanks,
-Kelvin

Re: Can Xalan be compiled with unicode support on VS2005

[David Bertoni <db...@apache.org>]

Kelvin wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> Just want to know if Xalan can be compiled with unicode support on VS2005 ?
> 
> I tried today, but failed with the following mesasges:
> 
> CreateFileW' : cannot convert parameter 1 from 'const char *const ' to 
> 'LPCWSTR'
> 

By "compiled with unicode support," I'm assuming you've set the 
"Character Set" property from "Use Multi-Byte Character Set" to "Use 
Unicode Character Set."

I suppose you could do this, by hacking the source code enough, but I'm 
not sure what you want to accomplish.  Xalan-C already fully supports 
Unicode, without modifying the project options.

If you want to do this, you probably should just change the call to 
CreateFile to CreateFileA.  I will make sure this change gets into the 
next version.  I don't know what other issues you'll run into, but they 
should be few, since Xalan-C doesn't use many Windows-specific APIs.

Dave