Question

I installed libxml2 and am using to compile a sample file that reads an xml document. I use the following to flags so I am using the libxml2:

gcc `xml2-config --cflags xml2-config --libs` libxml.c 

However it crashes right on the first line of parsing the file:

Error: <unknown>:1: syntax error near line 1
context: <?xml version="1.0" >>>  encoding="UTF-8"?> <<< 
Segmentation fault

I know that it is a valid xml file, the first couple of lines of the xml file looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sbml xmlns="http://www.sbml.org/sbml/level3/version1/core" level="3" version="1">
  <model metaid="_case00010" id="case00010" name="case00010" timeUnits="time">

Does any one had this error before? Thanks.

This is what I get when running gdb but am not sure what it means:

Cannot find new threads: generic error

The code is verbatim from here: http://www.xmlsoft.org/examples/parse1.c

And the xml file passes a validation check.

Answer 1

For some reason it is not linking right the libraries when the file name is at the end. I put the linkage info at the end and it wokred:

gcc 'xml2-config --cflags' libxml.c 'xml2-config --libs'