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- Xerces Java Build Instructions
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-
- Before building Xerces, you need the source package and tools
- package available from the Apache XML Project's distribution
- web page:
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- http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/
-
- Download both the Xerces-J-src.X.Y.Z.zip and Xerces-J-tools.X.Y.Z.zip
- files for the appropriate Xerces release (where "X.Y.Z" is the version
- number) and extract them in the same directory. If you are using Unix,
- download the equivalent .tar.gz files instead of the .zip files.
-
- You also need to have a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.2 (or
- higher) installed on your system. Before initiating any part of the
- build, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the installation
- directory of your JDK.
-
- The Ant program is used to build everything in Xerces, including
- the documentation. This tool, and the others needed (besides the
- pre-requisite JDK) are contained within the tools package. To
- make building the packages easier, a Windows batch file and a Unix
- shell script are included.
-
- If you only want to compile the source code and make the JAR files,
- run the following command on Windows:
-
- build.bat jars
-
- or from Unix (make sure that build.sh is executable):
-
- build.sh jars
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- This will compile all of the source code and generate the JAR
- files that are available as part of the binary package. After
- building, these files will be located in the build/ directory.
-
- If you want to build everything, including the documentation,
- run the build batch file (or shell script) specifying the "all"
- target instead of "jars".