UnixBuildXercesC

Introduction

Xerces should be included into the ubuntu release, so you should be able to install xerces-c using your package manager of choice:

apt-get install libxerces-c2-dev

If you would rather build the library from source, read on.

Details

Both versions 2.8.x and 3.0.x should work, but both have given me plenty of problems, either while compiling or while linking (creating the OpenMalaria executable) using the resultant library. I don't know if older versions would work.

Install from mac ports

Note that installing multiple copies of libraries isn't a good idea. In particular, if you already have xerces include files available on your system, they might be used along with a library from elsewhere, creating conflicts if the library is built from a different version of the source code.

Download and install macports from http://www.macports.org/ or darwinports.

Start the interactive shell:

sudo port -d selfupdate
sudo port

• From the interactive port shell:

list xercesc
install xercesc
quit

Macports installs xerces into /opt/local without making libraries or include files here generally available - so you need to make those locations explicitly available.

• make the library accessible:

cd openMalaria/lib
ln -s /opt/local/lib/libxerces-c.a ./

• make the includes accessible:

cd ../include
ln -s /opt/local/include/xercesc ./

Compile from source

As noted above, you don't have to use version 2.8., but if you did, the command to retrieve the source code would be:

wget http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/apache/dist/xerces/c/2/sources/xerces-c-src_2_8_0.tar.gz
tar -xvzf xerces-c-src_2_8_0.tar.gz
cd xerces-c-src_2_8_0/
export XERCESCROOT=`pwd`
cd src/xercesc

• configure for linux:

./runConfigure -plinux -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread -s

• configure for mac:

 ./runConfigure -pmacosx -cgcc -xg++ -minmem -nsocket -tnative -rpthread -s

Then build and install. If you are installing static libraries, put them in /usr/local/lib:

make
sudo make install
cd ../../..