Chapter 1. Installation

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Building on Unix
Building on Windows

You need a C++ compiler to compile and use YAZ++. The software was implemented using GCC so we know that works well with YAZ++. From time to time the software has been compiled on Windows using Visual C++. Other compilers should work too. Let us know of portability problems, etc. with your system.

YAZ++ is built on top of the YAZ toolkit. You need to install that first. For some platforms there are binary packages for YAZ.

Building on Unix

On UNIX, the software is compiled as follows:
$ ./configure $ make $ su # make install

You can supply options for the configure script. The most useful ones are:

--prefix directory

Specifies installation prefix. By default /usr/local is used.

--with-yazconfig directory

Specifies the location of yaz-config. The yaz-config program is generated in the source directory of YAZ as well as the binaries directory when YAZ is installed (via make install).

If you don't supply this option, configure will look for yaz-config in directories of the PATH environment - which is nearly always what you want.

For the whole list of configure options, refer to the help: ./configure --help.

This is what you have after successful compilation:

src/yaz-proxy: The YAZ Z39.50 Proxy utility. This program gets installed in your binaries directory (prefix/bin).
lib/libyaz++.la: The YAZ++ library, including the ZOOM-C++ classes. This library gets installed in your libraries directory (prefix/lib).
include/yaz++/*.h: Various C++ header files, which you'll need for YAZ development. All these are installed in your header files area (prefix/include/yaz++).
yaz++-config: A Bourne shell-script utility that returns the values of the CFLAGS and LIBS environment variables needed in order to compile your applications with the YAZ++ library. This script gets installed in your binaries directory (prefix/bin).
zoom/zclient: ZOOM C++ demonstration client. This client does not get installed in the system directories.
src/yaz-my-client: YAZ C++ demonstration client. This client does not get installed in the system directories.
src/yaz-my-server: YAZ C++ demonstration server. This server does not get installed in the system directories.