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width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ on Windows NT/98</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <P>Xerces-C++ comes with Microsoft Visual C++ projects and workspaces to help you build Xerces-C++. The following describes the steps you need to build Xerces-C++.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ library</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P>To build Xerces-C++ from it source (using MSVC), you will need to open the workspace containing the project. If you are building your application, you may want to add the Xerces-C++ project inside your applications's workspace.</P> <P>The workspace containing the Xerces-C++ project file and all other samples is:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>xerces-c-src1_5_2\Projects\Win32\VC6\xerces-all\xerces-all.dsw</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>Once you are inside MSVC, you need to build the project marked <B>XercesLib</B>.</P> <P>If you want to include the Xerces-C++ project separately, you need to pick up:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>xerces-c-src1_5_2\Projects\Win32\VC6\xerces-all\XercesLib\XercesLib.dsp</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>You must make sure that you are linking your application with the xerces-c_1.lib library and also make sure that the associated DLL is somewhere in your path.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>If you are working on the AlphaWorks version which uses ICU, you must have the ICU data DLL named <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">icudata.dll</FONT></CODE> available from your path setting. For finding out where you can get ICU from and build it, look at the <A href="build-misc.html#faq-1">How to Build ICU</A>.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building samples</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P>Inside the same workspace (xerces-all.dsw), you'll find several other projects. These are for the samples. Select all the samples and right click on the selection. Then choose "Build (selection only)" to build all the samples in one shot.</P> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><A name="faq-2"><!--anchor--></A><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ on Windows using Visual Age C++</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <P>A few unsupported projects are also packaged with Xerces-C++. Due to origins of Xerces-C++ inside IBM labs, we do have projects for IBM's <A href="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/vacpp/">Visual Age C++ compiler</A> on Windows. The following describes the steps you need to build Xerces-C++ using Visual Age C++.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ library</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P><B>Requirements:</B></P> <UL> <LI>VisualAge C++ Version 4.0 with Fixpak 1: <BR>Download the <A href="http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/vacpp/service/csd.html">Fixpak</A> from the IBM VisualAge C++ Corrective Services web page.</LI> </UL> <P>To include the ICU library:</P> <UL> <LI>ICU Build: <BR>You should have the <A href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/">ICU Library</A> in the same directory as the Xerces-C++ library. For example if Xerces-C++ is at the top level of the d drive, put the ICU library at the top level of d e.g. d:/xerces-c1_5_2 d:/icu.</LI> </UL> <P><B>Instructions:</B></P> <OL> <LI>Change the directory to d:\xerces-c1_5_2\Projects\Win32</LI> <LI>If a d:\xerces-c1_5_2\Project\Win32\VACPP40 directory does not exist, create it.</LI> <LI>Copy the IBM VisualAge project file, <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">XML4C2X.icc</FONT></CODE>, to the VACPP40 directory.</LI> <LI>From the VisualAge main menu enter the project file name and path.</LI> <LI>When the build finishes the status bar displays this message: Last Compile completed Successfully with warnings on date.</LI> </OL> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>These instructions assume that you install in drive d:\. Replace d with the appropriate drive letter.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><A name="faq-3"><!--anchor--></A><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ on Windows using Borland C++Builder</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <P>Xerces-C++ comes with Borland C++Builder projects to help you build Xerces-C++. The following describes the steps you need to build Xerces-C++.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ library</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P> The library and demo projects are all contained in the Xerces-all project group: </P> <UL> <LI> xerces-c-src1_5_1\Projects\Win32\BCB5\Xerces-all\Xerces-all.bpg </LI> </UL> <P> Each project in the group refers a directory belog \Xerces-all. For example, the XercesLib project files are contained in the directory </P> <UL> <LI> xerces-c-src1_5_1\Projects\Win32\BCB5\Xerces-all\XercesLib </LI> </UL> <P> To build any project, open the project manager. Double click on the project name. Then select "Project|Build" from the menu. For example, double click on XercesLib.dll in the manager. Then select "Project|Build XercesLib" from the menu. Once the library has been built, include XercesLib.lib with in application's project and place XercesLib.dll somewhere in your path. </P> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><A name="faq-4"><!--anchor--></A><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ on UNIX platforms</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <P>Xerces-C++ uses <A href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</A> tools like <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">Autoconf</A> and <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">GNU Make</A> to build the system. You must first make sure you have these tools installed on your system before proceeding. If you don not have required tools, ask your system administrator to get them for you. These tools are free under the GNU Public Licence and may be obtained from the <A href="http://www.gnu.org">Free Software Foundation</A>.</P> <P><B>Do not jump into the build directly before reading this.</B></P> <P>Spending some time reading the following instructions will save you a lot of wasted time and support-related e-mail communication. The Xerces-C++ build instructions are a little different from normal product builds. Specifically, there are some wrapper-scripts that have been written to make life easier for you. You are free not to use these scripts and use <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">Autoconf</A> and <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">GNU Make</A> directly, but we want to make sure you know what you are by-passing and what risks you are taking. So read the following instructions carefully before attempting to build it yourself.</P> <P>Besides having all necessary build tools, you also need to know what compilers we have tested Xerces-C++ on. The following table lists the relevant platforms and compilers.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="100%"> <TR><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><B>Operating System</B> </FONT></TD><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><B>C++, C Compilers</B> </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">Redhat Linux 6.1 </FONT></TD><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">g++, gcc (egcs) </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">AIX 4.3 </FONT></TD><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">xlC_r, xlc_r </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">Solaris 2.6 </FONT></TD><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">CC, cc </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">HP-UX 11 </FONT></TD><TD align="" bgcolor="#a0ddf0" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">aCC, cc </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE> <P>If you are not using any of these compilers, you are taking a calculated risk by exploring new grounds. Your effort in making Xerces-C++ work on this new compiler is greatly appreciated and any problems you face can be addressed on the <A href="mailto:xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org ">Xerces-C mailing list</A>. </P> <P><B>Differences between the UNIX platforms:</B> The description below is generic, but as every programmer is aware, there are minor differences within the various UNIX flavors the world has been bestowed with. The one difference that you need to watch out in the discussion below, pertains to the system environment variable for finding libraries. On <B>Linux and Solaris</B>, the environment variable name is called <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">LD_LIBRARY_PATH</FONT></CODE>, on <B>AIX</B> it is <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">LIBPATH</FONT></CODE>, while on <B>HP-UX</B> it is <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">SHLIB_PATH</FONT></CODE>. The following discussion assumes you are working on Linux, but it is with subtle understanding that you know how to interpret it for the other UNIX flavors.</P> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>If you wish to build Xerces-C++ with ICU, look at the <A href="build-misc.html#faq-1">Building ICU</A>. It tells you where you can get ICU and how to build Xerces-C++ with it.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Setting build environment variables</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P>Before doing the build, you must first set your environment variables to pick-up the compiler and also specify where you extracted Xerces-C++ on your machine. While the first one is probably set for you by the system administrator, just make sure you can invoke the compiler. You may do so by typing the compiler invocation command without any parameters (e.g. xlc_r, or g++, or cc) and check if you get a proper response back.</P> <P>Next set your Xerces-C++ root path as follows:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>export XERCESCROOT=<full path to xerces-c-src1_5_2></PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>This should be the full path of the directory where you extracted Xerces-C++.</P> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ library</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P>As mentioned earlier, you must be ready with the GNU tools like <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/autoconf.html">autoconf</A> and <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html">gmake</A> before you attempt the build.</P> <P>The autoconf tool is required on only one platform and produces a set of portable scripts (configure) that you can run on all other platforms without actually having the autoconf tool installed everywhere. In all probability the autoconf-generated script (called <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">configure</FONT></CODE>) is already in your <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">src</FONT></CODE> directory. If not, type:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>cd $XERCESCROOT/src autoconf</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>This generates a shell-script called <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">configure</FONT></CODE>. It is tempting to run this script directly as is normally the case, but wait a minute. If you are using the default compilers like <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">gcc</A> and <A href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html">g++</A> you do not have a problem. But if you are not on the standard GNU compilers, you need to export a few more environment variables before you can invoke configure.</P> <P>Rather than make you to figure out what strange environment variables you need to use, we have provided you with a wrapper script that does the job for you. All you need to tell the script is what your compiler is, and what options you are going to use inside your build, and the script does everything for you. Here is what the script takes as input:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>runConfigure runConfigure: Helper script to run "configure" for one of the supported platforms. Usage: runConfigure "options" where options may be any of the following: -p <platform> (accepts 'aix', 'linux', 'solaris', 'hp-10', 'hp-11', 'irix', 'unixware') -c <C compiler name> (e.g. xlc_r, gcc, cc) -x <C++ compiler name> (e.g. xlC_r, g++, CC, aCC) -d (specifies that you want to build debug version) -m <message loader> can be 'inmem', 'icu', 'iconv' -n <net accessor> can be 'fileonly', 'libwww' -t <transcoder> can be 'icu' or 'native' -r <thread option> can be 'pthread' or 'dce' (only used on HP-11) -l <extra linker options> -z <extra compiler options> -h (to get help on the above commands)</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>Xerces-C++ can be built as either a standalone library or as a library dependent on International Components for Unicode (ICU). For simplicity, the following discussion only explains standalone builds.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P>One of the common ways to build Xerces-C++ is as follows:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nfileonly -tnative</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>The response will be something like this:</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>Generating makefiles with the following options ... Platform: linux C Compiler: gcc C++ Compiler: g++ Extra compile options: Extra link options: Message Loader: inmem Net Accessor: fileonly Transcoder: native Thread option: Debug is OFF creating cache ./config.cache checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc -O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ -O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking for autoconf... autoconf checking for floor in -lm... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for XMLByte... no checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating Makefile creating util/Makefile creating util/Transcoders/ICU/Makefile creating util/Transcoders/Iconv/Makefile creating util/Transcoders/Iconv390/Makefile creating util/Transcoders/Iconv400/Makefile creating util/Platforms/Makefile creating util/Compilers/Makefile creating util/MsgLoaders/InMemory/Makefile creating util/MsgLoaders/ICU/Makefile creating util/MsgLoaders/MsgCatalog/Makefile creating util/MsgLoaders/MsgFile/Makefile creating validators/DTD/Makefile creating framework/Makefile creating dom/Makefile creating parsers/Makefile creating internal/Makefile creating sax/Makefile creating ../obj/Makefile creating conf.h cat: ./conf.h.in: No such file or directory conf.h is unchanged Having build problems? Read instructions at http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/build.html Still cannot resolve it? Find out if someone else had the same problem before. Check the mailing list archives at http://archive.covalent.net. In future, you may also directly type the following commands to create the Makefiles. export TRANSCODER=NATIVE export MESSAGELOADER=INMEM export USELIBWWW=0 export CC=gcc export CXX=g++ export CXXFLAGS=-O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER export CFLAGS=-O -DXML_USE_NATIVE_TRANSCODER -DXML_USE_INMEM_MESSAGELOADER export LIBS= -lpthread configure If the result of the above commands look OK to you, go to the directory XERCESCROOT and type "gmake" to make the Xerces-C++ system.</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="3" width="100%"><TR><TD valign="top" width="20"><IMG alt="Note" border="0" height="24" hspace="0" src="resources/note.gif" vspace="0" width="20"></TD><TD valign="top"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><I>The error message concerning <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">conf.h</FONT></CODE> is NOT an indication of a problem. This code has been inserted to make it work on AS/400, but it gives this message which appears to be an error. The problem will be fixed in future.</I></FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P>So now you see what the wrapper script has actually been doing! It has invoked <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">configure</FONT></CODE> to create the Makefiles in the individual sub-directories, but in addition to that, it has set a few environment variables to correctly configure your compiler and compiler flags too.</P> <P>Now that the Makefiles are all created, you are ready to do the actual build.</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>gmake</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>Is that it? Yes, that's all you need to build Xerces-C++.</P> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="484"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="482"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building samples</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="482"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="482"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="474"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"> <P>Similarly, you can build the samples by giving the same commands in the <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">samples</FONT></CODE> directory.</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>cd $XERCESCROOT/samples runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ gmake</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>The samples get built in the <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">bin</FONT></CODE> directory. Before you run the samples, you must make sure that your library path is set to pick up libraries from <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">$XERCESCROOT/lib</FONT></CODE>. If not, type the following to set your library path properly.</P> <DIV align="left"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4" width="464"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#ffffff" width="462"><FONT size="-1"><PRE>export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$XERCESCROOT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</PRE></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="462"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="462"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></DIV> <P>You are now set to run the sample applications.</P> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><A name="faq-5"><!--anchor--></A><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Building Xerces-C++ as a single-threaded library on Unix platforms</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10"> </TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif"> <P>To build a single-threaded library on Unix platforms you have to update one or more of the following files <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">Makefile.incl, Makefile.in, runConfigure</FONT></CODE>. The following steps guide you to create a single-threaded library for each platform:</P> <P>For Aix - </P> <UL> <LI>Replace <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">xlc_r</FONT></CODE> and <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">xlC_r</FONT></CODE> libraries with <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">xlc</FONT></CODE> and <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">xlC</FONT></CODE> respectively</LI> <LI>Replace <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">makeC++SharedLib_r</FONT></CODE> with <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">makeC++SharedLib</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove the flag <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-D_THREAD_SAFE</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove inclusion of any threaded library directories from the <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">LIBPATH</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove inclusion of <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lpthreads</FONT></CODE> and <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lpthread_compat</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Add <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-DAPP_NO_THREADS</FONT></CODE> to define the variable under AIX specific options in <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">Makefile.incl</FONT></CODE></LI> </UL> <P>For Solaris -</P> <UL> <LI>Add <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-DAPP_NO_THREADS</FONT></CODE> to define the variable under SOLARIS specific options in <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">Makefile.incl</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove compiler switch <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-mt</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-D_REENTRANT</FONT></CODE> flag from the 'compile' options</LI> <LI>Remove inclusion of <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lpthread</FONT></CODE></LI> </UL> <P>For Linux -</P> <UL> <LI>Add <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-DAPP_NO_THREADS</FONT></CODE> to define the variable under LINUX specific options in <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">Makefile.incl</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-D_REENTRANT</FONT></CODE> flag from the 'compile' options</LI> <LI>Remove inclusion of <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lpthread</FONT></CODE></LI> </UL> <P>For HPUX -</P> <UL> <LI>Add <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-DAPP_NO_THREADS</FONT></CODE> to define the variable under HP specific options in <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">Makefile.incl</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove inclusion of <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lpthread</FONT></CODE> and <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-lcma</FONT></CODE></LI> <LI>Remove threading defines like <CODE><FONT face="courier, monospaced">-D_PTHREADS_DRAFT4 , -DXML_USE_DCE</FONT></CODE></LI> </UL> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="620"><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2"><IMG height="1" src="images/dot.gif" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD align="center"><FONT color="#0086b2" size="-1"><I> Copyright © 2001 The Apache Software Foundation. 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