You need a C++ compiler to compile and use YAZ proxy. The software was implemented using GCC so we know that works well with YAZ proxy. 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 proxy is built on top of the YAZ and YAZ++ toolkits. You need to install these first. For some platforms there are binary packages available for YAZ/YAZ++.
We also highly recommend that libxml2 and libXSLT are installed. YAZ must be configured with libxml2 support. If not, SRW/SRU is not supported. The YAZ Proxy uses libXSLT for record conversions via XSLT.
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:
Specifies installation prefix. By default /usr/local is used.
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.
Specifies prefix for libXSLT (and libxml2). configure must be able to locate xslt-config in PREFIX/bin. If this option is omitted, configure looks for xslt-config in the current PATH.
Configure uses GCC's C/C++ compiler if available. To specify another compiler, set CXX. To use other compiler flags, specify CXXFLAGS. For example, to use CC with debugging do:
CXXFLAGS="-g" CXX=CC ./configure
This is what you have after successful compilation:
The YAZ Proxy program. It gets installed in your binaries directory (prefix/bin).
The YAZ proxy library. This library gets installed in the libraries directory (prefix/lib).
C++ header files, which you'll need for YAZ proxy development. All these are installed in the header files area (prefix/include/yazproxy).
Various files such as configuration files, XSLT files, CQL to RPN conversion files, a sample start/stop control script yazproxy.ctl.sh that can be used as template for an /etc/init.d script. These files are installed in the YAZ proxy's data area (prefix/share/yazproxy).