<html> <body> <h1 align='right'><a name='INSTALL'><img src="1.gif" align="right" hspace="10" width="100" height="100" alt="1"></a>Building, Installing, and Packaging Mini-XML</h1> <p>This chapter describes how to build, install, and package Mini-XML on your system from the source archive. You will need an ANSI/ISO-C compatible compiler to build Mini-XML - GCC works, as do most vendors' C compilers. If you are building Mini-XML on Windows, we recommend using the Visual C++ environment with the supplied solution file. For other operating systems, you'll need a POSIX-compatible shell and <tt>make</tt> program in addition to the C compiler.</p> <h2>Compiling Mini-XML</h2> <p>Mini-XML comes with both an autoconf-based configure script and a Visual C++ solution that can be used to compile the library and associated tools.</p> <h3>Compiling with Visual C++</h3> <p>Open the <VAR>mxml.sln</VAR> solution in the <VAR>vcnet</VAR> folder. Choose the desired build configuration, "Debug" (the default) or "Release", and then choose <VAR>Build Solution</VAR> from the <VAR>Build</VAR> menu.</p> <h3>Compiling with Command-Line Tools</h3> <p>Type the following command to configure the Mini-XML source code for your system:</p> <pre> <kbd>./configure ENTER</kbd> </pre> <p>The default install prefix is <var>/usr/local</var>, which can be overridden using the <kbd>--prefix</kbd> option:</p> <pre> <kbd>./configure --prefix=/foo ENTER</kbd> </pre> <p>Other configure options can be found using the <kbd>--help</kbd> option:</p> <pre> <kbd>./configure --help ENTER</kbd> </pre> <p>Once you have configured the software, use the <tt>make(1)</tt> program to do the build and run the test program to verify that things are working, as follows:</p> <pre> <kbd>make ENTER</kbd> </pre> <h2>Installing Mini-XML</h2> <p>If you are using Visual C++, copy the <VAR>mxml.lib</VAR> and and <VAR>mxml.h</VAR> files to the Visual C++ <VAR>lib</VAR> and <VAR>include<VAR> directories, respectively.</p> <p>Otherwise, use the <tt>make</tt> command with the <kbd>install</kbd> target to install Mini-XML in the configured directories:</p> <pre> <kbd>make install ENTER</kbd> </pre> <h2>Creating Mini-XML Packages</h2> <p>Mini-XML includes two files that can be used to create binary packages. The first file is <var>mxml.spec</var> which is used by the <tt>rpmbuild(8)</tt> software to create Red Hat Package Manager ("RPM") packages which are commonly used on Linux. Since <tt>rpmbuild</tt> wants to compile the software on its own, you can provide it with the Mini-XML tar file to build the package:</p> <pre> <kbd>rpmbuild -ta mxml-<i>version</i>.tar.gz ENTER</kbd> </pre> <p>The second file is <var>mxml.list</var> which is used by the <tt>epm(1)</tt> program to create software packages in a variety of formats. The <tt>epm</tt> program is available from the following URL:</p> <pre> <a href='http://www.easysw.com/epm/'>http://www.easysw.com/epm/</a> </pre> <p>Use the <tt>make</tt> command with the <kbd>epm</kbd> target to create portable and native packages for your system:</p> <pre> <kbd>make epm ENTER</kbd> </pre> <p>The packages are stored in a subdirectory named <var>dist</var> for your convenience. The portable packages utilize scripts and tar files to install the software on the target system. After extracting the package archive, use the <var>mxml.install</var> script to install the software.</p> <p>The native packages will be in the local OS's native format: RPM for Red Hat Linux, DPKG for Debian Linux, PKG for Solaris, and so forth. Use the corresponding commands to install the native packages.</p> </body> </html>