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 (a] redhat.com 62
