| Extracted from the documentation: | |
| http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio | |
| See also the generic INSTALL file for configure options | |
| Compilation | |
| 1.What is the process to compile libxml ? | |
| As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard": | |
| gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf - | |
| cd libxml-xxxx | |
| ./configure --help | |
| to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper | |
| ./configure [possible options] | |
| make | |
| make install | |
| At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to | |
| update your list of installed shared libs. | |
| At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning | |
| by running | |
| make tests | |
| 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ? | |
| Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API | |
| should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you | |
| may find). | |
| However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use | |
| the following libs: | |
| libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library | |
| http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/ | |
| iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's | |
| included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't | |
| need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's | |
| now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one | |
| implementation of the library which source can be found here. | |
| http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html | |
| ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/ | |
| 3.make tests may fail on some platforms | |
| Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the | |
| value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print | |
| the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation | |
| process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem | |
| Daniel | |
| veillard@redhat.com |