Re: Building libxml++ with self-build libxml2

[Jost Baron <Jost Baron gmx de>]

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On 05/09/2012 01:10 PM, Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> 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


Hi Kjell,

thanks for the hints, now I got it working :-)

Regards,
Jost
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