This is a port of Libxml2 2.9.9 to MSDOS/DJGPP. Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform), it is free software available under the MIT License. 1.: DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - This port has been configured to be build in the "_build" directory. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3, Win98SE and MS-DOS 7.10 with DOSLFN 0.41c. There is absolute no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. - This version of the port has been compiled using gcc346 and bnu232b. As usual, all djgpp specific files (config.bat, diffs, readme files, etc.) are located in the djgpp subdir. For further information about Libxml2 please read the info docs and NEWS file. 2.: Installing the binary package. ============================== 2.1.: Copy the binary distribution into the top DJGPP installation directory and unzip it running *ONE* of the following commands: unzip32 xml299b.zip or djtarx xml299b.zip or pkunzip -d xml299b.zip 3.: Building the binaries from sources. =================================== 3.1.: Create a temporary directory and copy the source package into the directory. If you download the source distribution from one of the DJGPP sites, just unzip it preserving the directory structure running *ONE* of the following commands: unzip32 xml299s.zip or djtarx xml299s.zip or pkunzip -d xml299s.zip 3.2.: To build the binaries you will need the following binary packages: djdev205.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version) bsh205bbr3.zip (or a later but NOT a prior version) gccNNNb.zip, bnuNNNb.zip, makNNNb.zip, filNNNb.zip, shlNNNb.zip, txtNNNb.zip, txiNNNb.zip, grepNNNb.zip, sedNNNb.zip, mktmpNNb.zip and difNNNb.zip. If the build-in FTP and/or HTTP support is wanted then the Watt-32 library (aka wat3211b.zip) must be installed. NNN represents the latest version number of the binary packages. All this packages can be found in the /v2gnu directory of any ftp.delorie.com mirror. You will need bsh417br2.zip or later and *NOT* a prior version or the build will fail on plain DOS. Also no version before djdev205.zip is supported. 3.3.: The package has been configured to be build in a separate build directory under the top srcdir (aka libxml2-2.9.9). To build the binaries cd into /_build directory. If for some reason you want to reconfigure the package cd into the build directory and run the following commands: del config.cache make clean ..\djgpp\config ./.. Please note that you *MUST* delete the config.cache file in the _build directory or you will not really reconfigure the sources because the configuration informations will be read from the cache file instead of being newly computed. config.bat, among other things, will start the configure script passing to it a couple of arguments. You can control these argument passing the following command line arguments to config.bat: cache or no-cache, default cache. Cache in build directory. dep or no-dep, default no-dep. No dependency tracking. silent or no-silent, default silent. Controls the verbosity of the build process. ftp or no-ftp, default no-ftp. No build-in HTTP support. http or no-http, default no-http. No build-in HTTP support. All other configure specific options are not set by config.bat so their values are left as they are. If no arguments are passed to config.bat then the default values are used. Building with FTP and/or HTTP support requires install the DJGPP port of the Watt-32 library. To build the programs in a directory other than where the sources are, you must add the parameter that specifies the source directory, e.g: x:\src\contrib\libxml2-2.9.9\djgpp\config x:/src/contrib/libxml2-2.9.9 Lets assume you want to build the binaries in a directory placed on a different drive (z:\build in this case) from where the sources are, then you will run the following commands: z: md \build cd \build x:\src\contrib\libxml2-2.9.9\djgpp\config x:/src/contrib/libxml2-2.9.9 The order of the options and the srcdir option does not matter. You *MUST* use forward slashes to specify the source directory. The batch file will set same environment variables, make MSDOS specific modifications to the Makefile.in's and supply all other needed options to the configure script. 3.4.: To compile the package run from the directory where you have configured the sources the command: make 3.5.: Now you can run the tests if you like. From the directory where you have configured the sources run the command: make check 3.6.: To install the binary, info docs and man pages run the following command from the directory where you have configured the sources: make install This will install the products into your DJGPP installation tree given by the default prefix "/dev/env/DJDIR". If you prefer to install them into some other directory you will have to set prefix to the appropriate value: make install prefix=z:/some/other/place Send Libxml2 specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel