Dear Pavel Hlavnicka,
Thank you very much. This message was very helpful. It worked now very well,
even on my Win98 machine (I was installing only the perl part and the
binaries.
All the best,
Christian
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pavel Hlavnicka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2000 3:34 PM
> To: Sablotron Mailing List
> Subject: [Sab] Installing Sablotron on NT (was: Help needed ...)
>
>
> This message should be a general guide to NT installation process (and
> FAQ in the near future).
>
> This cookbook applies to release 0.43 and later.
>
> 1. Sablotron
> ----------------------------------------
>
> for binary distributions start with e)
>
> a) you need both of Sablotron and Expat tarballs
> b) unpack Sablotron
> c) unpack Expat into the Sablotron directory
>
> your directory tree should look like this (excerpt):
>
> ...\
> \Sablotron-x.xx
> \Sablot
> \engine
> \command
> \Expat
> \distribution
>
> Unlike the Linux installation, you *always* need the Expat source
> (second way is simple hack of Makefile, do it, if you know what are you
> doing)
>
> d) type 'nmake -f Makefile.nt' in the Sablotron-x.xx directory
> (do not forget to set compiler environment (vcvars32.bat), don't
> care for it, if you compiler works :)
>
>
> e) to run sabcmd or another programs using sablotron shared libs, you
> need your PATH variable contain bin\ directory of sablotron. Of course,
> you may copy files from this directory into any folder pointed by PATH.
>
> f) to compile and link another programs with sablotron libraries, you
> need place the *.lib files (lib/ directory) into some folder pointed by
> LIB env. variable, and the *.h files (include/ directory) into folder
> pointed by INCLUDE variable. Copy files or set LIB and INCLUDE. (There
> is one exception, you do not need this for XML::Sablotron module (Perl)
> - see the next chapter).
>
> 2. XML::Sablotron
> ----------------------------------------
>
> g) you need XML-Sablotron-x.xx.tar.gz file and Sablotron installed as
> described in a) .. e)
>
> h) unpack archive in *any* directory
>
> i) type 'perl Makefile.PL -d x:/somewhere/Sablotron-x.xx'
> (or just perl Makefile.PL, if you've made point f))
>
> j) type nmake
>
> k) nmake test
>
> l) nmake install
>
> All should be OK.
>
>
> --
> Pavel Hlavnicka
> Ginger Alliance Ltd.
> Prague; Czech Republic
>
>
>
