Installation

Windows

This section contains installation instructions for the Windows platform.

Source distribution

The &XercesCName; source is available in the source distribution: &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.zip.

Install the &XercesCName; source distribution by using `unzip` on the &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.zip archive in the Windows environment. You can use WinZip, or any other UnZip utility:

    unzip &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.zip

This creates the '&XercesC3SrcInstallDir;' sub-directory containing the &XercesCName; source distribution.

To build the &XercesCName; source after installation, please follow the Build Instructions.

UNIX

This section contains installation instructions for the UNIX, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms.

Source distribution

The &XercesCName; source is available in the source distribution: &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz (other formats also available).

Install the &XercesCName; source distribution &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz by extracting the files from the compressed archive:

    gzip -d &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz
    tar -xf &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar

This creates the '&XercesC3SrcInstallDir;' sub-directory containing the &XercesCName; source distribution.

To build the &XercesCName; source after installation, please follow the Build Instructions.

Cygwin

This section contains installation instructions for the Cygwin platform.

Source distribution

The &XercesCName; source is available in the source distribution: &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz (other formats available).

Install the &XercesCName; source distribution &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz by extracting the files from the compressed archive:

    tar -xfz &XercesC3SrcInstallDir;.tar.gz

This creates the '&XercesC3SrcInstallDir;' sub-directory containing the &XercesCName; source distribution.

To build the &XercesCName; source after installation, please follow the Build Instructions.

Binary distribution

Precompiled Xerces-C++ libraries for Cygwin are provide as part of the Cygwin package repository. To install the binary distribution run Cygwin setup.exe. When you reach the Packages step of the Cygwin Setup wizard, expand the Devel category, then click in the New column next to "xerces-c-devel" until it reads "&XercesC3Version;-X".