<?xml version="1.0" ?> <!DOCTYPE faqs SYSTEM "./dtd/faqs.dtd"> <faqs title="Distributing &XercesCName;"> <faq title="What compilers are being used on the supported platforms?"> <q>What compilers are being used on the supported platforms?</q> <a> <p>&XercesCProjectName; binaries has been built on the following platforms with these compilers</p> <table> <tr> <td><em>Operating System</em></td> <td><em>Compiler</em></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Windows NT 4.0 SP5/98</td> <td>MSVC 6.0 SP3</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Redhat Linux 6.1</td> <td>egcs-2.91.66 and glibc-2.1.2-11</td> </tr> <tr> <td>AIX 4.3</td> <td>xlC_r 5.0.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Solaris 2.6</td> <td>CC Workshop 4.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>HP-UX 11.0</td> <td>aCC A.03.13 with pthreads</td> </tr> </table> </a> </faq> <faq title="What are the differences between Xerces-C and XML4C?"> <q>What are the differences between Xerces-C and XML4C?</q> <a> <p>Xerces-C has intrinsic support for ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (Big/Small Endian), UCS4 (Big/Small Endian), EBCDIC code pages IBM037 and IBM1140 encodings, ISO-8859-1 (aka Latin1) and Windows-1252. This means that it can parse input XML files in these above mentioned encodings.</p> <p>However, if you wish to parse XML files in any other encodings, say in Shift-JIS, Big5 etc., then you cannot use Xerces-C. XML4C addresses this need. It combines Xerces-C and <jump href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/"> International Components for Unicode (ICU)</jump> and provides support for over 100 different encodings.</p> <p>ICU is also an open source project but is licensed under the <jump href="http://www.x.org/terms.htm"> X License</jump>. XML4C is published by IBM and can be downloaded from their <jump href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xml4c">Alphaworks</jump> site. The license to use XML4C is simply to comply with the Apache license (because of Xerces-C) and X License (because of ICU).</p> <p>XML4C binaries are published for Solaris using SunWorkshop compiler, HPUX 10.20 and 11.0 using CC and aCC, Redhat Linux using gcc, Windows NT using MSVC, AIX using xlC.</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="Which DLL's do I need to distribute with my application?"> <q>Which DLL's do I need to distribute with my application?</q> <a> <p>As mentioned above, there are two configurations in which Xerces-C binaries are shipped. One is from the <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/index.html">Apache site</jump>, while the other is from IBM published at <jump href="http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xml4c">IBM's Alphaworks Site</jump>.</p> <p>If you are using the binaries from the <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-c/">Apache download site</jump> site, then you only need to distribute <em>one</em> file:<br></br> &XercesCWindowsDLL;.dll for Windows NT/95/98, or<br/> &XercesCUnixLib;.a for AIX, or<br/> &XercesCUnixLib;.so for Solaris/Linux, or<br/> &XercesCUnixLib;.sl for HP-UX.</p> <p>However, if you are using the XML4C binaries then in <em>addition</em> to the library file mentioned above, you also need to ship:</p> <ol> <li><em>ICU shared library file</em>:<br></br> icuuc.dll for Windows NT/95/98, or<br></br> libicuuc.a for AIX, or<br></br> libicuuc.so for Solaris/Linux, or<br></br> libicuuc.sl for HP-UX.</li> <li><em>ICU converter data shared library file:</em><br></br> icudata.dll for Windows NT/95/98, or<br></br> libicudata.a for AIX, or<br></br> libicudata.so for Solaris/Linux, or<br></br> libicudata.sl for HP-UX.</li> </ol> </a> </faq> <faq title="How do I package the sources to create a binary drop?"> <q>How do I package the sources to create a binary drop?</q> <a> <p>You have to first compile the sources inside your IDE to create the required DLLs and EXEs. Then you need to copy over the binaries to another directory for the binary drop. A perl script has been provided to give you a jump start. You need to install perl on your machine for the script to work. If you have changed your source tree, you have to modify the script to suit your current directory structure. To invoke the script, go to the \<&XercesCProjectName;>\scripts directory, and type:</p> <source>perl packageBinaries.pl</source> <p>You will get a message that somewhat looks like this (changes always happpen, we are evolving you see!): </p> <source>Usage is: packageBinaries <options> options are: -s <source_directory> -o <target_directory> -c <C compiler name> (e.g. gcc or xlc_r) -x <C++ compiler name> (e.g. g++ or xlC_r) -m <message loader> can be 'inmem', 'icu' or 'iconv' -n <net accessor> can be 'fileonly' or 'libwww' -t <transcoder> can be 'icu' or 'native' -r <thread option> can be 'pthread' or 'dce' (only used on HP-11) -h to get help on these commands Example: perl packageBinaries.pl -s$HOME/xerces-c_1_0_0 -o$HOME/xerces-c_1_0_0 -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nfileonly -tnative</source> <p>Make sure that your compiler can be invoked from the command line and follow the instructions to produce a binary drop.</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="I do not see binaries for my platform. When will they be available?"> <q>I do not see binaries for my platform. When will they be available?"></q> <a> <p>The reason why you see binaries only for some specific platforms is that we have had the maximum requests for them. Moreover, we have limited resources and hence cannot publish binaries for every platform. If you wish to contribute your time and effort in building binaries for a specific platform/environment then please send a mail to the <jump href="mailto:&XercesCEmailAddress;">Xerces-C mailing list</jump>. We can definitely use any extra help in this open source project</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="When will a port to my platform be available?"> <q>When will a port to my platform be available?</q> <a> <p>We would like to see &XercesCProjectName; ported to as many platforms as there are. Again, due to limited resources we cannot do all the ports. We will help you make this port happen. Here are some <jump href="build-misc.html#faq-4">Porting Guidelines</jump>.</p> <p>We strongly encourage you to submit the changes that are required to make it work on another platform. We will incorporate these changes in the source code base and make them available in the future releases.</p> <p>All porting changes may be sent to the <jump href="mailto:&XercesCEmailAddress;">Xerces-C mailing list</jump> .</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="How can I port &XercesCProjectName; to my favourite platform?"> <q>How can I port &XercesCProjectName; to my favourite platform?</q> <a> <p>Some porting information is mentioned on the <jump href="build-misc.html#faq-4">build</jump> page.</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="What application did you used to create the documentation?"> <q>What application did you used to create the documentation?</q> <a> <p>We have used an internal XML based application to create the documentation. The documentation files are all written in XML and the application, internally codenamed StyleBook, makes use of XSL to transform it into an HTML document that you are seeing right now. It is currently available on the <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/">Apache</jump> open source website as <jump href="http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/index.html">Cocoon</jump>.</p> <p>The API documentation is automatically generated using <jump href="http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/">doxygen</jump> and <jump href="http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/">GraphViz</jump>.</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="Can I use &XercesCProjectName; in my product?"> <q>Can I use &XercesCProjectName; in my product?</q> <a> <p>Yes! Read the license agreement first and if you still have further questions, then please address them to the <jump href="mailto:&XercesCEmailAddress;">Xerces-C mailing list</jump> .</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="How do I uninstall &XercesCName;?"> <q>How do I uninstall &XercesCName;?</q> <a> <p>&XercesCName; only installs itself in a single directory and does not set any registry entries. Thus, to uninstall, you only need to remove the directory where you installed it, and all &XercesCName; related files will be removed.</p> </a> </faq> <faq title="I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. What's the problem?"> <q>I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. What's the problem?</q> <a> <p>The problem is caused by a limitation in the original tar spec, which prevented it from archiving files with long pathnames. Unfortunately, various current versions of tar use different extensions for eliminating this restriction which are incompatible with each other (or they do not remove the restriction at all). Rather than altering the pathnames for the &XercesCName; package, which would make them compatible with the original tar spec but make it more difficult to know what was where, it was decided to use GNU tar (gtar), which handles arbitrarily long pathnames and is freely available on every platform on which &XercesCName; is supported. If you don't already have GNU tar installed on your system, you can obtain it from the Free Software Foundation <jump href="http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html"> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/tar.html</jump>. For additional background information on this problem, see the online manual <jump href="http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_117.html#SEC112"> GNU tar and POSIX tar </jump> for the utility. </p> </a> </faq> </faqs>