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Elliott Hughes72472942018-01-10 08:36:10 -08001== How to build expat with cmake (experimental) ==
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3The cmake based buildsystem for expat works on Windows (cygwin, mingw, Visual
4Studio) and should work on all other platform cmake supports.
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6Assuming ~/expat-2.2.5 is the source directory of expat, add a subdirectory
7build and change into that directory:
8~/expat-2.2.5$ mkdir build && cd build
9~/expat-2.2.5/build$
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11From that directory, call cmake first, then call make, make test and
12make install in the usual way:
13~/expat-2.2.5/build$ cmake ..
14-- The C compiler identification is GNU
15-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU
16....
17-- Configuring done
18-- Generating done
19-- Build files have been written to: /home/patrick/expat-2.2.5/build
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21If you want to specify the install location for your files, append
22-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/your/install/path to the cmake call.
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24~/expat-2.2.5/build$ make && make test && make install
25Scanning dependencies of target expat
26[ 5%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlparse.c.o
27[ 11%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlrole.c.o
28....
29-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc
30-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/xmlwf
31-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1
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33For Windows builds, you must make sure to call cmake from an environment where
34your compiler is reachable, that means either you call it from the
35Visual Studio Command Prompt or when using mingw, you must open a cmd.exe and
36make sure that gcc can be called. On Windows, you also might want to specify a
37special Generator for CMake:
38for Visual Studio builds do:
39cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 10" && vcexpress expat.sln
40for mingw builds do:
41cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=D:\expat-install
42 && gmake && gmake install