Compiling XERCES for Win64

Compiling XERCES 2.7

What is xerces?

An XML DOM parser, XERCES provides functionality for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents. Xerces-C++ is faithful to the XML 1.0 and 1.1 recommendations and many associated standards.

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You can find the binaries and source of all the versions from here.

Compiling XERCES 2.7 for x64 bit machines on windows.

Step 1: Open xerceesroot\Projects\Win32\VC7.1\xercer-all\xerces-all.sln in visual studio.

Step 2: Create a x64 bit configuration in visual studio.
Confirm that in Linker->Advanced->Target Machine it say Machine64

Step 3: Now close the visual studio window and open the file xerceesroot\Projects\Win32\VC7.1\xercer-all\XercesLib\XercesLib.vcproj in a editor.

Step 4: Find "Release|x64" then scroll down to “VCLinkerTool”, there is an AdditionalOptions attribute that says /MACHINE:1386, detele that attribute. Close the editor and load up the solution again.

Step 5: Next go to properties->C/C++->Preprocessor->Preprocessor Definitions add WIN64 preprocessor symbol.

Step 6: Change the wchar_t setting in properties->C/C++->Language->Treat wxhar_t as Built-inType to No (/Zc:wchar_t-)

Step 7: Right click the XercesLib project and select Project Only->Build Only XercisLib.

You will find the compiled x64 binaries at the following path,


<path to xerces root>\Build\Win32\VC7.1\Release\