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diff --git a/Build/source/extra/expat/README b/Build/source/extra/expat/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d1c68741909 --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/extra/expat/README @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ + + Expat, Release 1.95.1 + +This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat +is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with +the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when +the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. +A start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may +register handlers. + +Expat is free software. You may copy, distribute, and modify it under the +terms of the License contained in the file, COPYING, distributed with this +package. This license is the same as the MIT/X Consortium license. + +Versions of expat that have an odd minor version (the middle number in the +release above), are development releases and should be considered as +beta software. Releases with even minor version numbers are intended to be +production grade software. + +To build expat, you first run the configuration shell script in the top +level distribution directory: + + ./configure + +There are many options which you may provide to configure (which you can +discover by running configure with the --help option.) But the one of most +interest is the one that sets the installation directory. By default, +the configure script will set things up to install libexpat into +/usr/local/lib and expat.h into /usr/local/include. If, for example, you'd +prefer to install into /home/me/mystuff/lib and /home/me/mystuff/include, +you can tell configure about that with: + + ./configure --prefix=/home/me/mystuff + +After running the configure script, the "make" command will build things and +"make install" will install things into their proper location. Note that +you need to have write permission into the directories into which things +will be installed. + +Alternatively, on Win32 systems with Microsoft's Developer's Studio installed, +you can simply double-click on lib/expat.dsp from Windows Explorer and build +and install in the usual way from with DevStudio. + +As a third alternative you may choose to download expat_win32bin which has +a pre-compiled dll in it. + +A reference manual is available in the doc/reference.html in this +distribution. + +The homepage for this project is http://expat.sourceforge.net. There are +links there to connect you to the bug reports page. If you need to report +a bug when you don't have access to a browser, you may also send a bug +report by email to expat-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net. + +Discussion related to the direction of future expat development takes place +on expat-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net. Archives of this list may be found +at http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=expat-discuss. |