This tutorial describes how to develop C XML projects using a Linux operating system, making use of the Liquid XML Data Binder. [mod]Remove Ad link [/mod]

At The Start - The Startup

First of all, you are going to first have to make your library from the xml schema (Observe: you've got to execute this on a Windows platform because the Wizard is for Windows only). Doing so will let you have a file called Makefile_Linux that should compile and link your library. The next task is to copy the project file and all .cpp and .h files to your Linux system. After that you can create a new project on Linux for use in your application.

Modifying The Makefile

You might need to modify the Makefile_Linux file to set up paths relevant to your own system. The default values are the following:

# compiler include dirs

CPP_INCLUDES=-I../Bin/Redist8/cpp/include

# external libs path

RELEASE_LIB_PATH=-L../Bin/Redist8/cpp/linux/bin

DEBUG_LIB_PATH=-L../Bin/Redist8/cpp/linux/bin

Each of these paths must point to the redistributable files supplied as part of the Liquid XML Data Binding Wizard install.

Running make

The makefile has been tested against GNU g on Linux x86 32 bit (g 3.2 under RedHat 8.0, g 3.2.2 under

Mandrake 9.1, g 3.4.1 under Mandrake 10.1 and g 4.2.4 under Ubuntu 8.0), and Linux x86 64 bit (g 4.0.0 under Fedora Core 4.0.0).

Be aware: g 3.3.x and 3.4.0 fail to work due to a compiler issue, but 3.4.1 operates fine!!

Providing you have this available on your path, you can simply type 'make -fMakefile_Linux' from the command line within the suitable directory and both debug and release builds of you library will be built.

Other targets included in the Makefile are:

release - release build only

debug - debug build only

clean - deletes any object and library files previously created

release_clean - deletes release files only

debug_clean - deletes debug files only


Connecting to your Library

So that you can link against your library you have got to incorporate both the path to the Liquid Technologies runtime header and library files along with the generated header and library files within your applications makefile. In order to operate your application you will furthermore want all libraries to be on the library path. This can be done by putting the directories to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH.