1Extracted from the documentation:
2   http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Compilatio
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4Compilation
5
6   1.What is the process to compile libxml ? 
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8     As most UNIX libraries libxml follows the "standard":
9
10     gunzip -c xxx.tar.gz | tar xvf -
11
12     cd libxml-xxxx
13
14     ./configure --help
15
16     to see the options, then the compilation/installation proper
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18     ./configure [possible options]
19
20     make
21
22     make install
23
24     At that point you may have to rerun ldconfig or similar utility to
25     update your list of installed shared libs.
26
27     At this point you can check that the library is properly functionning
28     by running
29
30     make tests
31
32   2.What other libraries are needed to compile/install libxml ? 
33
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
36     may find).
37
38     However if found at configuration time libxml will detect and use
39     the following libs:
40
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/
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51   3.make tests may fail on some platforms 
52
53     Sometime the regression tests results don't completely match the
54     value produced by the parser, and the makefile uses diff to print
55     the delta. On some platforms the diff return breaks the compilation
56     process, if the diff is small this is probably not a serious problem
57
58Daniel
59veillard@redhat.com
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61$Id: INSTALL,v 1.4 2006/03/24 14:02:54 veillard Exp $
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