ubundurp
June 30th, 2011, 08:25 PM
If anyone can help me or let me know where I should repost this question, I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks.
I am developing an application.... call it myapplication. I started to input and parse a text cfg file manually in ansi c. I started getting clever with a txt version of a config file using keywords and trying to read in and parse the data I needed from each table into char arrays. I started thinking that XML would be a lot easier and since I need to do that eventually anyhow I dropped the effort for reading in the data from a formatted txt file and I have now spent over 2 days trying to get an ansi c compatible version of XML (called mini-xml) running on Ubuntu so that I can use the xml functions from my "myapplication" to read in an xml file. It is not going well. I think both my unfamiliarity with Linux and the lack of a good set of instructions for mini-xml installation/build is holding me back. But I thinkmy lackof knowledge on how Linux features/additions are integrated into each other is the real issue here.
In short, I do not know the steps I need to do to use mini-xml.
I do not know:
- what to install, build/make, or where the output of such actions will put what files
- where to take these files and place them in order to be able to include the mxml.h file to my "myapplication" and use.
My Goal: To use fns in the mini-xml API such as
MiniXMLDoc
createElement
getElement
fromFile
etc...
How the directory structure looks on Ubuntu:
Ubundurp\
myapplication
CCU5
mini-xml
Here are the instructions that come with mini-xml: (SEE MY COMMENTS IN CAPITAL BELOW WITH MY USERNAME "UBUNDURP" PRECEDING)
README - 2009-05-17
-------------------
INTRODUCTION
This README file describes the Mini-XML library version 2.6.
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and
XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard
libraries. Mini-XML only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works,
as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program.
Mini-XML provides the following functionality:
- Reading of UTF-8 and UTF-16 and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files and
strings.
- Data is stored in a linked-list tree structure, preserving the XML
data hierarchy.
- Supports arbitrary element names, attributes, and attribute values
with no preset limits, just available memory.
- Supports integer, real, opaque ("cdata"), and text data types in
"leaf" nodes.
- Functions for creating and managing trees of data.
- "Find" and "walk" functions for easily locating and navigating trees
of data.
Mini-XML doesn't do validation or other types of processing on the data
based upon schema files or other sources of definition information.
BUILDING Mini-XML
Mini-XML comes with an autoconf-based configure script; just type the
following command to get things going:
./configure (UBUNDURP: THIS WORKED AFTER I REMOVED THE WINDOWS STYLE LINEFEED/CARRIAGE RETURN)
The default install prefix is /usr/local, which can be overridden using the
--prefix option:
./configure --prefix=/foo
Other configure options can be found using the --help option:
./configure --help
Once you have configured the software, type "make" to do the build and run
the test program to verify that things are working, as follows:
make (UBUNDURP: SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED HOWEVER NOT ALL OF THE TESTS THAT WERE RUN PASSED. SOME FAILED. I THINK AT THIS POINT I'M EITHER TRYING TO ACCESS A FEATURE OF LINUX THAT IS EITHER NOT INSTALLED OR NOT AVAILABLE/VISIBLE TO ME FROM WITHIN THE MINI-XML FILES STRUCTURE)
If you are using Mini-XML under Microsoft Windows with Visual C++ 2008, use
the included project files in the "vcnet" subdirectory to build the library
instead.
INSTALLING Mini-XML
The "install" target will install Mini-XML in the lib and include
directories:
make install (UBUNDURP: THIS ALSO SEEMED TO WORK SINCE I HAVE A BUNCH OF .O TYPE FILES IN MY MINI-XML DIRECTORY)
Once you have installed it, use the "-lmxml" option to link your application
against it.
(UBUNDURP: I CANNOT SEEM TO GET THIS TO WORK IN THE MAKE FILE WHEN I ADD THIS OPTION TO THE EXISTING LINE in "myapplication"s make file.
$(TARGET): $(COBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(COBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -lnsl -lrt -lpthread -lmxml $(EXTRA_LIBS) (UNUNDURP: <- FAILS AND SAYS "cannot find -lmxml")
I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THE -LMXML WAS AN OPTIONAL DIRECTIVE TO THE COMPILER. BUT HERE IT SEEMS LIKE WHEREVER THEY HAVE THAT LMXML DIRECTIVE DEFINED IS NOT IN THE SCOPE OF THE APPLICATION I AM DEVELOPING. I JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT PART(S) OF THE MINI-XML PACKAGE I NEED TO PULL INTO THE APPLICATION FOLDERS. THE '.O' FILES? ALL OF THE CODE FILES? SOME .LIB FILE? EVERYTHING? I KNOW THESE AREN'T FAIR QUESTIONS, BUT I FIGURED IF I EXPLAINED MY ISSUE, YOU MIGHT HAVE A LEAD I CAN FOLLOW. IF SO, MAYBE IT'LL GET ME OUT OF BEING STUCK LIKE I AM NOW. )
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation is available in the "doc" subdirectory in the files
"mxml.html" (HTML) and "mxml.pdf" (PDF). You can also look at the
"testmxml.c" and "mxmldoc.c" source files for examples of using Mini-XML.
Mini-XML provides a single header file which you include:
#include <mxml.h>
Nodes are defined by the "mxml_node_t" structure; the "type" member defines
the node type (element, integer, opaque, real, or text) which determines
which value you want to look at in the "value" union. New nodes can be
created using the "mxmlNewElement()", "mxmlNewInteger()", "mxmlNewOpaque()",
"mxmlNewReal()", and "mxmlNewText()" functions. Only elements can have
child nodes, and the top node must be an element, usually "?xml".
You load an XML file using the "mxmlLoadFile()" function:
FILE *fp;
mxml_node_t *tree;
fp = fopen("filename.xml", "r");
tree = mxmlLoadFile(NULL, fp, MXML_NO_CALLBACK);
fclose(fp);
(UNUNDURP: THIS IS THE CODE SNIPPPET I AM TRYING TO GET TO WORK. IT FAILS DURING THE MAKE SAYING "underfined reference to 'mxmlLoadFile' " WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE EVEN IF I PUT THE MXML.H FILE INTO THE APPLICATION FOLDER, THE DEFENITION OF THE FN IS EXTERN. BUT EXTERN TO WHERE?
I am developing an application.... call it myapplication. I started to input and parse a text cfg file manually in ansi c. I started getting clever with a txt version of a config file using keywords and trying to read in and parse the data I needed from each table into char arrays. I started thinking that XML would be a lot easier and since I need to do that eventually anyhow I dropped the effort for reading in the data from a formatted txt file and I have now spent over 2 days trying to get an ansi c compatible version of XML (called mini-xml) running on Ubuntu so that I can use the xml functions from my "myapplication" to read in an xml file. It is not going well. I think both my unfamiliarity with Linux and the lack of a good set of instructions for mini-xml installation/build is holding me back. But I thinkmy lackof knowledge on how Linux features/additions are integrated into each other is the real issue here.
In short, I do not know the steps I need to do to use mini-xml.
I do not know:
- what to install, build/make, or where the output of such actions will put what files
- where to take these files and place them in order to be able to include the mxml.h file to my "myapplication" and use.
My Goal: To use fns in the mini-xml API such as
MiniXMLDoc
createElement
getElement
fromFile
etc...
How the directory structure looks on Ubuntu:
Ubundurp\
myapplication
CCU5
mini-xml
Here are the instructions that come with mini-xml: (SEE MY COMMENTS IN CAPITAL BELOW WITH MY USERNAME "UBUNDURP" PRECEDING)
README - 2009-05-17
-------------------
INTRODUCTION
This README file describes the Mini-XML library version 2.6.
Mini-XML is a small XML parsing library that you can use to read XML and
XML-like data files in your application without requiring large non-standard
libraries. Mini-XML only requires an ANSI C compatible compiler (GCC works,
as do most vendors' ANSI C compilers) and a "make" program.
Mini-XML provides the following functionality:
- Reading of UTF-8 and UTF-16 and writing of UTF-8 encoded XML files and
strings.
- Data is stored in a linked-list tree structure, preserving the XML
data hierarchy.
- Supports arbitrary element names, attributes, and attribute values
with no preset limits, just available memory.
- Supports integer, real, opaque ("cdata"), and text data types in
"leaf" nodes.
- Functions for creating and managing trees of data.
- "Find" and "walk" functions for easily locating and navigating trees
of data.
Mini-XML doesn't do validation or other types of processing on the data
based upon schema files or other sources of definition information.
BUILDING Mini-XML
Mini-XML comes with an autoconf-based configure script; just type the
following command to get things going:
./configure (UBUNDURP: THIS WORKED AFTER I REMOVED THE WINDOWS STYLE LINEFEED/CARRIAGE RETURN)
The default install prefix is /usr/local, which can be overridden using the
--prefix option:
./configure --prefix=/foo
Other configure options can be found using the --help option:
./configure --help
Once you have configured the software, type "make" to do the build and run
the test program to verify that things are working, as follows:
make (UBUNDURP: SEEMS TO HAVE WORKED HOWEVER NOT ALL OF THE TESTS THAT WERE RUN PASSED. SOME FAILED. I THINK AT THIS POINT I'M EITHER TRYING TO ACCESS A FEATURE OF LINUX THAT IS EITHER NOT INSTALLED OR NOT AVAILABLE/VISIBLE TO ME FROM WITHIN THE MINI-XML FILES STRUCTURE)
If you are using Mini-XML under Microsoft Windows with Visual C++ 2008, use
the included project files in the "vcnet" subdirectory to build the library
instead.
INSTALLING Mini-XML
The "install" target will install Mini-XML in the lib and include
directories:
make install (UBUNDURP: THIS ALSO SEEMED TO WORK SINCE I HAVE A BUNCH OF .O TYPE FILES IN MY MINI-XML DIRECTORY)
Once you have installed it, use the "-lmxml" option to link your application
against it.
(UBUNDURP: I CANNOT SEEM TO GET THIS TO WORK IN THE MAKE FILE WHEN I ADD THIS OPTION TO THE EXISTING LINE in "myapplication"s make file.
$(TARGET): $(COBJS)
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(COBJS) $(LDFLAGS) -lnsl -lrt -lpthread -lmxml $(EXTRA_LIBS) (UNUNDURP: <- FAILS AND SAYS "cannot find -lmxml")
I WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION THE -LMXML WAS AN OPTIONAL DIRECTIVE TO THE COMPILER. BUT HERE IT SEEMS LIKE WHEREVER THEY HAVE THAT LMXML DIRECTIVE DEFINED IS NOT IN THE SCOPE OF THE APPLICATION I AM DEVELOPING. I JUST DO NOT KNOW WHAT PART(S) OF THE MINI-XML PACKAGE I NEED TO PULL INTO THE APPLICATION FOLDERS. THE '.O' FILES? ALL OF THE CODE FILES? SOME .LIB FILE? EVERYTHING? I KNOW THESE AREN'T FAIR QUESTIONS, BUT I FIGURED IF I EXPLAINED MY ISSUE, YOU MIGHT HAVE A LEAD I CAN FOLLOW. IF SO, MAYBE IT'LL GET ME OUT OF BEING STUCK LIKE I AM NOW. )
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation is available in the "doc" subdirectory in the files
"mxml.html" (HTML) and "mxml.pdf" (PDF). You can also look at the
"testmxml.c" and "mxmldoc.c" source files for examples of using Mini-XML.
Mini-XML provides a single header file which you include:
#include <mxml.h>
Nodes are defined by the "mxml_node_t" structure; the "type" member defines
the node type (element, integer, opaque, real, or text) which determines
which value you want to look at in the "value" union. New nodes can be
created using the "mxmlNewElement()", "mxmlNewInteger()", "mxmlNewOpaque()",
"mxmlNewReal()", and "mxmlNewText()" functions. Only elements can have
child nodes, and the top node must be an element, usually "?xml".
You load an XML file using the "mxmlLoadFile()" function:
FILE *fp;
mxml_node_t *tree;
fp = fopen("filename.xml", "r");
tree = mxmlLoadFile(NULL, fp, MXML_NO_CALLBACK);
fclose(fp);
(UNUNDURP: THIS IS THE CODE SNIPPPET I AM TRYING TO GET TO WORK. IT FAILS DURING THE MAKE SAYING "underfined reference to 'mxmlLoadFile' " WHICH MAKES SENSE BECAUSE EVEN IF I PUT THE MXML.H FILE INTO THE APPLICATION FOLDER, THE DEFENITION OF THE FN IS EXTERN. BUT EXTERN TO WHERE?