1 Extracted from the documentation:
2 http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio
6 1.What is the process to compile libxml ?
8 As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard":
10 gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
16 to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
18 ./configure [possible options]
24 At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to
25 update your list of installed shared libs.
27 At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning
32 2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ?
34 Libxml does not requires any other library, the normal C ANSI API
35 should be sufficient (please report any violation to this rule you
38 However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use
41 libz: a highly portable and available widely compression library
42 http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/
43 iconv: a powerful character encoding conversion library. It's
44 included by default on recent glibc libraries, so it doesn't
45 need to be installed specifically on linux. It seems it's
46 now part of the official UNIX specification. Here is one
47 implementation of the library which source can be found here.
48 http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/packages-libiconv.html
49 ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/
51 3.libxml does not compile with HP-UX's optional ANSI-C compiler
53 this is due to macro limitations. Try to add " -Wp,-H16800 -Ae"
56 you can also install and use gcc instead or use a precompiled version
57 of libxml, both available from the HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre
59 4.make tests fails on some platforms
61 Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the
62 value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print
63 the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation
64 process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem
69 $Id: INSTALL,v 1.3 2001/06/17 10:32:52 veillard Exp $