How to install libxml2 in unix

Question

can anybody tell me how to install libxml2 in Unix? I am using windows for browsing net and Unix for writing my C programs. I also dont know whether it is already installed. Please tell me guys how to install libxml2 and use it for parsing.

Answer 1

Here's a way to install from source - given by good folks at Cypress project.

https://github.com/projectcypress/cypress/wiki/Cypress-v2.0-Installation-Guide

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cd /tmp
wget ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
tar xzf libxml2-2.8.0.tar.gz
cd libxml2-2.8.0/
./configure
make
sudo make install
cd

Answer 2

Read the installation instructions that come with libxml2 in the file INSTALL . If you find any file or directory with the substring libxml2 in /usr/local/include or /usr/local/lib (such as /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so ) then it is already installed.

Depending on the particular Unix brand (which you did not tell us), you might need to look in other directories as well.