OpenSP 1.5.1 Win32/MSVC++ patch / binaries

Dear OpenSP maintainers,

  As far as I can tell, none of the modifications I suggested back in
May 2003 to allow building OpenSP on Win32 have been applied. I would
like to ask you again to apply the attached patch file to the source
tree. The patch is based on the OpenSP 1.5.1 release.

Note that my patch would add an unconditional

  #undef SP_MULTI_BYTE

to config.h.old.in. onsgmls and osx won't compile on any platform with
-DSP_MULTI_BYTE as they assume various SP-specific types resolve to char
while they resolve to wchar_t with SP_MULTI_BYTE. Since SP_MULTI_BYTE is
the default on Win32 and the various Visual Studio Project files define
SP_MULTI_BYTE, undefining SP_MULTI_BYTE in config.h is the most simple
solution to this problem. I would suggest to use the #undef there until
you fix onsgmls and osx. I think the other patches should not be
controversial.

Also note that - even with this patch applied - osx will not build on
Win32 as it depends on realpath() and dirname() which are not available
on Win32, and MSVC++ requires constant expressions in array
initialization such as

  foo bar[...]

These would need to be changed to

  foo bar = new foo[...]

In order to build OpenSP, Win32 users would still have to ensure that
the .dsp files use CRLF line termination, run

  nmake -i -a -f sp-generate.mak

from the top source directory, load the workspace file (SP.dsw) into the
IDE and build it from there. Visual Studio.NET users would need to
confirm to convert the Visual Studio 6.0 project files to the new
format. It is also a good idea to replace the @PACKAGE@ and @VERSION@
macros in config.h manually.

Based on this patch I provide binaries built using Visual Studio.NET
2003 and linked against LIBCMT.lib (-MT) on

  http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/ports/OpenSP-1.5.1-win32-bin.zip

The archive contains onsgmls, osgmlnorm, ospam, ospcat, ospent, and
their osp151.dll dependency. It does not contain osx due to what I wrote
above.

If you would like to make these binaries available to your users, please
provide them a local copy through sf.net facilities, I would like to
keep my traffic low.

regards.