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@@ -1,139 +0,0 @@ - - Expat, Release 2.2.0 - -This is Expat, a C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. -Expat is a stream-oriented XML parser. This means that you register -handlers with the parser before starting the parse. These handlers -are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the -document being parsed. A start tag is an example of the kind of -structures for which you may register handlers. - -Windows users should use the expat_win32bin package, which includes -both precompiled libraries and executables, and source code for -developers. - -Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under -the terms of the License contained in the file COPYING distributed -with this package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium -license. - -Versions of Expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in -the release above), are development releases and should be considered -as beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are -intended to be production grade software. - -If you are building Expat from a check-out from the CVS repository, -you need to run a script that generates the configure script using the -GNU autoconf and libtool tools. To do this, you need to have -autoconf 2.58 or newer. Run the script like this: - - ./buildconf.sh - -Once this has been done, follow the same instructions as for building -from a source distribution. - -To build Expat from a source distribution, you first run the -configuration shell script in the top level distribution directory: - - ./configure - -There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you -can discover by running configure with the --help option). But the -one of most interest is the one that sets the installation directory. -By default, the configure script will set things up to install -libexpat into /usr/local/lib, expat.h into /usr/local/include, and -xmlwf into /usr/local/bin. If, for example, you'd prefer to install -into /home/me/mystuff/lib, /home/me/mystuff/include, and -/home/me/mystuff/bin, you can tell configure about that with: - - ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff - -Another interesting option is to enable 64-bit integer support for -line and column numbers and the over-all byte index: - - ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_LARGE_SIZE - -However, such a modification would be a breaking change to the ABI -and is therefore not recommended for general use - e.g. as part of -a Linux distribution - but rather for builds with special requirements. - -After running the configure script, the "make" command will build -things and "make install" will install things into their proper -location. Have a look at the "Makefile" to learn about additional -"make" options. Note that you need to have write permission into -the directories into which things will be installed. - -If you are interested in building Expat to provide document -information in UTF-16 encoding rather than the default UTF-8, follow -these instructions (after having run "make distclean"): - - 1. For UTF-16 output as unsigned short (and version/error - strings as char), run: - - ./configure CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE - - For UTF-16 output as wchar_t (incl. version/error strings), - run: - - ./configure CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fshort-wchar" \ - CPPFLAGS=-DXML_UNICODE_WCHAR_T - - 2. Edit the MakeFile, changing: - - LIBRARY = libexpat.la - - to: - - LIBRARY = libexpatw.la - - (Note the additional "w" in the library name.) - - 3. Run "make buildlib" (which builds the library only). - Or, to save step 2, run "make buildlib LIBRARY=libexpatw.la". - - 4. Run "make installlib" (which installs the library only). - Or, if step 2 was omitted, run "make installlib LIBRARY=libexpatw.la". - -Using DESTDIR or INSTALL_ROOT is enabled, with INSTALL_ROOT being the default -value for DESTDIR, and the rest of the make file using only DESTDIR. -It works as follows: - $ make install DESTDIR=/path/to/image -overrides the in-makefile set DESTDIR, while both - $ INSTALL_ROOT=/path/to/image make install - $ make install INSTALL_ROOT=/path/to/image -use DESTDIR=$(INSTALL_ROOT), even if DESTDIR eventually is defined in the -environment, because variable-setting priority is -1) commandline -2) in-makefile -3) environment - -Note: This only applies to the Expat library itself, building UTF-16 versions -of xmlwf and the tests is currently not supported. - -Note for Solaris users: The "ar" command is usually located in -"/usr/ccs/bin", which is not in the default PATH. You will need to -add this to your path for the "make" command, and probably also switch -to GNU make (the "make" found in /usr/ccs/bin does not seem to work -properly -- apparently it does not understand .PHONY directives). If -you're using ksh or bash, use this command to build: - - PATH=/usr/ccs/bin:$PATH make - -When using Expat with a project using autoconf for configuration, you -can use the probing macro in conftools/expat.m4 to determine how to -include Expat. See the comments at the top of that file for more -information. - -A reference manual is available in the file doc/reference.html in this -distribution. - -The homepage for this project is http://www.libexpat.org/. There -are links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need -to report a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also -send a bug report by email to expat-bugs@mail.libexpat.org. - -Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes -place on expat-discuss@mail.libexpat.org. Archives of this list and -other Expat-related lists may be found at: - - http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/ |