| Daniel Veillard | 743311b | 2010-03-10 10:35:56 +0100 | [diff] [blame] | 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 |