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 make program in addition to the C compiler.
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.
Open the mxml.sln solution in the vcnet folder. Choose the desired build configuration, "Debug" (the default) or "Release", and then choose Build Solution from the Build menu.
Type the following command to configure the Mini-XML source code for your system:
./configure ENTER
The default install prefix is /usr/local, which can be overridden using the --prefix option:
./configure --prefix=/foo ENTER
Other configure options can be found using the --help option:
./configure --help ENTER
Once you have configured the software, use the make(1) program to do the build and run the test program to verify that things are working, as follows:
make ENTER
If you are using Visual C++, copy the mxml.lib and and mxml.h files to the Visual C++ lib and include directories, respectively.
Otherwise, use the make command with the install target to install Mini-XML in the configured directories:
make install ENTER