This file describes the installation procedure of Sablotron. To know

more on Sablotron, please read the README file in the same directory

as this file.



To get more info on installing on *Windows*, please read

the INSTALL_WIN file.



For specific information on how to build Sablotron with JavaScript

engine (to enable extensions) see the README_JS file.



1. Intro

2. Building

3. Preinstalled Expat

4. Binary distributions

5. Environment

6. Documentation

7. More info





1. Intro

========================================



Sablotron is based on Expat XML parser.



There is a significant change of how Expat is used since version

0.50. Sablotron _never_ looks for Expat under its own source tree, but

it supposes, that you have installed Expat library (1.95.1 or later)

in your system.



To get Expat, visit



http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/



and download/install source/binary package.



Sablotron should be able to find and link older expat libraries

(libxmlparse, libxmltok), but this feature is not tested and is

deprecated.





2. Building (sources)

========================================



If you have downloaded the binary distribution, you can skip reading this

section and go to the Environment section.



Sablotron compiles e.g. on the following platforms:



- Linux (RH 5.2 - 7.0, gcc 2.95.2 or later)

- Windows (NT 4.0, 9x, 2000, VC++ 4.2/6.0)

- Solaris (Solaris 2.5.1, 2.6, 7, gcc 2.91.57)

- FreeBSD (FreeBSD 3.4, 4.1)

- OpenBSD (OpenBSD 2.8 beta)

- HP-UX

- Irix

- MacOS X



If you need any other port, please contact us.



We use GNU autoconf since the version 0.41. So the following steps

should work on any UNIX platform:



  ./configure

  make

  make install (may require the root privileges)



These switches can be passed to ./configure



  --enable-javascript

	enables JS extension functions

  --enable-perlconnect

	required when installed with Charlie application framework

  --enable-debugger

	enables XSLT debugger

  --with-readline

	links the debugger with the readline library to make its command-line

	interface more comfortable (SABLOT_GPL=1 must be exported)



These are some other useful switches you may want to pass to the configure

script:



  --help

	display all switches available

  --prefix='path where to install'

	specifies the installation path (/usr/local on most systems)

  --enable-warnings

	force compilation with the -Wall switch (for curious people)

  --disable-adding-meta

	disables adding of the META tag (html output method)

  --disable-static

	static library is not created to make compilation faster





3. Preinstalled Expat

========================================



This chapter is obsolete, but may contain some useful info for people

running older configuration.



This version of the build process on all Unix platforms respects the

presence of Expat sources. If you have installed Sablotron and Expat in

the past (with `make install'), the configure script writes makefiles, so

they link Expat from your system directories (the sources win, if present).



If you have installed Expat in some non-system directories in the

past, configure script won't find headers, and build process will

fail, even if you specify include path with --includedir switch. To

fix this problem, set CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH environment variable to point

to Expat headers.





4. Binary distributions

========================================



Binaries are available for Linux Intel (rpm) and Windows32.





5. Environment

========================================



No environment changes are needed (finally!). That's,

of course, true only if you've used standard 'make install'

procedure.



The list of environment variables, you may possibly need modify:



LIBRARY_PATH: set this variable to the directory, where the Expat XML

parser is installed. Do it in the case the configure/linker couldn't

find the expat libraries.



LD_LIBRARY_PATH: add lib directory to this variable, if sabcmd reports

"Can't load shared library libsablot.0.xx" or such thing.



CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH: is needed if you didn't install Sablotron (and

mainly Expat) into system directories and you're going compile new

version against older version of Expat. (see "Preinstalled Expat")



On some systems (UnixWare, NetBSD...) the compiler is unable to find

headers in /usr/local/include. Consequently the 'configure' script

doesn't find the expat header and compilation fails. To avoid this

problem, set CPPFLAGS environment to

'-I/usr/local/include'. CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH is not enough.



If want to link Sablotron with GNU readline library you need set SABLOT_GPL

environment variable to 1 to declare you are going to use this software

under the GPL.





6. Documentation

========================================



The source package contains XML sources of three guides:



Sablotron Guide and Reference

Sablotron Extensions API Reference

SXP Reference



These guides are translated to HTML during the building of the package.

By default, you can find the HTML guides in



$(distdir)/doc/apidoc/[sablot|jsdom-ref|sxp]

and

$(datadir)/doc/html/[sablot|jsdom-ref|sxp]



directories.



The building of documentation requires Perl and XML::Parser to be installed;

otherwise the building is skipped.





7. More info

========================================



We suppose you have read the README file. If you haven't, read it now.

If it is not enough, take a look at our website:



http://www.gingerall.org





Enjoy Sablotron!!



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