| 1 | Extracted from the documentation:
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| 2 | http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio
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| 3 |
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| 4 | Compilation
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| 5 |
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| 6 | 1.What is the process to compile libxml ?
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| 7 |
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| 8 | As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard":
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| 9 |
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| 10 | gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
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| 11 |
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| 12 | cd libxml-xxxx
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| 13 |
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| 14 | ./configure --help
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| 15 |
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| 16 | to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
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| 17 |
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| 18 | ./configure [possible options]
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| 19 |
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| 20 | make
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| 21 |
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| 22 | make install
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| 23 |
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| 24 | At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to
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| 25 | update your list of installed shared libs.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning
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| 28 | by running
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| 29 |
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| 30 | make tests
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| 31 |
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| 32 | 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ?
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API
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| 35 | should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you
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| 36 | may find).
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| 37 |
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| 38 | However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use
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| 39 | the following libs:
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| 40 |
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| 41 | libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library
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| 42 | http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
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| 43 | iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's
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| 44 | included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't
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| 45 | need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's
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| 46 | now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one
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| 47 | implementation of the library which source can be found here.
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| 48 | http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
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| 49 | ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/
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| 50 |
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| 51 | 3.make tests may fail on some platforms
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| 52 |
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| 53 | Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the
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| 54 | value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print
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| 55 | the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation
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| 56 | process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem
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| 57 |
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| 58 | Daniel
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| 59 | veillard@redhat.com
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| 60 |
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| 61 | $Id: INSTALL 6076 2007-12-14 19:23:03Z vboxsync $
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