wiki:Libxml2-install

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Installation: libxml2 and Perl bindings (LibXML)

Follow the steps below to download and install the required softwares. Create a local install directory 'xmllibs'
(or any other convenient name) in your home directory or anywhere.We will use '$HOME/xmllibs' as an example here for local install.
All of the following installations will be done in the same base local directory i.e $HOME/xmllibs.

  1. Libxml2:

Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit. It is free software available under the ​MIT License. For more information visit ​http://xmlsoft.org/

  1. Download libxml2 version 2.6.28: ​ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.6.28.tar.gz
  1. Unzip and untar the file to a tmp directory.

  1. Run configure as shown below. Specify the local install directory as $HOME/xmllibs 
    $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME/xmllibs
  2. Run 
    $ make
  3. Run make install. This will install the required libs and executables into $HOME/xmllibs. 
    $ make install
  4. Add '$HOME/xmllibs/bin' to the system PATH. 
    export PATH=$HOME/xmllibs/bin:$PATH
or
setenv PATH $HOME/xmllibs/bin:$PATH


  1. XML::LibXML::Common-0.13:
  1. Download XML-LibXML-Common version 0.13: ​http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PH/PHISH/XML-LibXML-Common-0.13.tar.gz
  1. Unzip and untar the file to a tmp directory.

  1. Generate Makefile as shown below. Specify the local install directory as $HOME/xmllibs 
    $ perl Makefile.PL INSTALLSITEARCH=$HOME/xmllibs
  2. Run 
    $ make
  3. Run make test. This will test the install. 
    $ make test
  4. Run make install. This will install the required libs and executables into $HOME/xmllibs. 
    $ make install


  1. XML::LibXML: 1.65:
  1. Download XML-LibXML version 1.65: ​http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.65.tar.gz
  1. Unzip and untar the file to a tmp directory.

  1. Generate Makefile as shown below. Specify the local install directory as $HOME/xmllibs 
    $ perl Makefile.PL INSTALLSITEARCH=$HOME/xmllibs
  2. Run 
    $ make
  3. Run make test. This will test the install. 
    $ make test
  4. Run make install. This will install the required libs and executables into $HOME/xmllibs. 
    $ make install


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