Re: Building libxml++ with self-build libxml2

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net>]

2012-05-08 17:11, Jost Baron skrev:
> Hi!
>
> I want to use libxml++, but installing it via package manager on the 
> system I'm working on is not an option. So I've downloaded libxml2 and 
> built it. Now I am trying to build and link libxml++ against this 
> build, but the configure script always complains:
>
> No package 'libxml-2.0' found
> No package 'glibmm-2.4' found
>
> The second one is obvious, glibmm is not there. But libxml2 is there, 
> and no matter how I try to tell the libxml++-configure script the 
> paths, it still complains about the missing libxml-package.
>
> How do I get libxml++ to run on this system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Jost
You say that you have built libxml2. Have you also installed it (make 
install)?

libxml++'s configure script uses pkg-config, when it searches for 
libxml-2.0 and glibmm-2.4.
pkg-config searches for the file libxml-2.0.pc, and that file contains 
information where to search for libxml2.a.

Do you know that you can choose where to install libxml2, if you don't 
like the default /usr/local?
  ./configure --prefix=/your/directory

You will probably have to tell pkg-config where to search for 
libxml-2.0.pc by setting
  export 
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/your/directory/lib/pkgconfig:/your/directory/share/pkgconfig

Kjell