[xmlsec] Include file order

Aleksey Sanin aleksey at aleksey.com
Mon Jun 11 09:28:11 PDT 2018


Thank you!

Aleksey

On 6/9/18 12:59 AM, Peter Budai wrote:
> I’ll send a PR shortly, no problem
> 
>  
> 
> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
> Windows 10
> 
>  
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Aleksey Sanin <aleksey at aleksey.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, June 8, 2018 6:44:29 PM
> *To:* Peter Budai; xmlsec at aleksey.com
> *Subject:* Re: [xmlsec] Include file order
>  
> Interesting. Looks like libxslt is now including some windows crypto
> code that triggered this issue.
> 
> I think changing includes order should be fine. Nothing in xmlsec
> should depend on includes order. Do you mind sending a PR?
> 
> Aleksey
> 
> On 6/8/18 2:44 AM, Peter Budai wrote:
>>  
>> 
>> With the latest release I have noticed that the build under MSYS2/MINGW
>> is failing with the following message:
>> 
>> ../../../src/openssl/x509.c:109:66: error: expected declaration
>> specifiers or '...' before '(' token
>> 
>> static xmlChar* xmlSecOpenSSLX509NameWrite (X509_NAME* nm);
>> 
>> ^
>> 
>> ../../../src/openssl/x509.c: In function
>> 'xmlSecOpenSSLX509SubjectNameNodeWrite':
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> More detailed build log you can see here:
>> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/peterbud/xmlsec/build/job/sc82e41xseg7c391#L494
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The problem in my understanding is that Windows headers also #define
>> some names that openssl uses too. Openssl headers #undef the offending
>> names before reusing them. But if those offending Windows headers get
>> included _/after/_ the openssl headers the namespace gets polluted.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> As a solution I have changed the include order in the openssl/x509.c and
>> openssl/x50vfy.c files, aka moved the openssl includes as the last files
>> to include, and that solved the problem, I was able to compile and
>> execute all the tests.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> However I’m not sue this is the right solution. Any opinion?
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> xmlsec mailing list
>> xmlsec at aleksey.com
>> http://www.aleksey.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlsec
>> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> xmlsec mailing list
> xmlsec at aleksey.com
> http://www.aleksey.com/mailman/listinfo/xmlsec
> 


More information about the xmlsec mailing list