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| 1 Extracted from the documentation: |
| 2 http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio |
| 3 |
| 4 See also the generic INSTALL file for configure options |
| 5 |
| 6 Compilation |
| 7 |
| 8 1.What is the process to compile libxml ? |
| 9 |
| 10 As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard": |
| 11 |
| 12 gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - |
| 13 |
| 14 cd libxml-xxxx |
| 15 |
| 16 ./configure --help |
| 17 |
| 18 to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper |
| 19 |
| 20 ./configure [possible options] |
| 21 |
| 22 make |
| 23 |
| 24 make install |
| 25 |
| 26 At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to |
| 27 update your list of installed shared libs. |
| 28 |
| 29 At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning |
| 30 by running |
| 31 |
| 32 make tests |
| 33 |
| 34 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ? |
| 35 |
| 36 Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API |
| 37 should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you |
| 38 may find). |
| 39 |
| 40 However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use |
| 41 the following libs: |
| 42 |
| 43 libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library |
| 44 http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ |
| 45 iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's |
| 46 included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't |
| 47 need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's |
| 48 now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one |
| 49 implementation of the library which source can be found here. |
| 50 http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html |
| 51 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ |
| 52 |
| 53 3.make tests may fail on some platforms |
| 54 |
| 55 Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the |
| 56 value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print |
| 57 the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation |
| 58 process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem |
| 59 |
| 60 Daniel |
| 61 veillard@redhat.com |
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