FerhatAyaz 2005csoap

This document shows in short examples how to compile cSOAP under *nix systems. cSOAP is implemented in ANSI C. So it should be possible to compile it with every ANSI C conform compiler. If you can not compile it with your compiler, please post it to the mailinglist, so we can alter neccessary code or Makefiles.

cSOAP depends on libxml2 and pkg-config tool. + libxml2 : http://xmlsoft.org + pkg-config : http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/

First you must build the libxml2 library. You can test if you have this library on your system by typing xml2-config in a command prompt. Otherwise download the latest sourcecode form http://xmlsoft.org. lets say you downloaded libxml2-[version].tar.gz into you build directory. where $LIBXMLDIST is your directory where you want to install libxml2 (usually /usr or /usr/local). Replace it with your pathname.

At this time we assume that you have pkg-config and libxml2 installed properly on you system. To check if you have pkg-config, just type "pkg-config" in a command prompt. Otherwise got to http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/ and folow the instructions Now we must download the latest cSOAP package into the build directory. Goto "http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=74977" (or click just the download menu item) and download the latest cSOAP package. Lets say libsoap-[version].tar.gz. where $LIBSOAPDIST is your directory where you want to install libsoap (usually /usr or /usr/local) and $LIBXMLDIST is the directory where you installed libxml2 (see section "Build libxml2"). Replace this variables with your pathnames.

Ok. Here is a script which will download, compile and install csoap and libxml2.