There are multiple ways to install the s1kd-tools:
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using a package manager and the pre-compiled Debian (.deb) or Red Hat (.rpm) packages
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building from source
Debian (.deb) and Red Hat (.rpm) packages are provided to easily
install, upgrade or uninstall the s1kd-tools on Linux systems using a
package manager. The examples below focus on the standard dpkg
(for
Debian-based distributions) and rpm
(for Red Hat-based distributions).
You can download the latest release of the s1kd-tools from http://khzae.net/1/s1000d/s1kd-tools/releases/latest. Then use one of the following commands to install it:
Debian:
# dpkg -i s1kd-tools_[version]_[arch].deb
Red Hat:
# rpm -i s1kd-tools.[version].[arch].rpm
To uninstall using the package manager, use one of the following commands:
Debian:
# dpkg -r s1kd-tools
Red Hat:
# rpm -e s1kd-tools
The typical requirements to build the executables on any Linux distribution are:
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gcc
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make
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xxd
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pkg-config
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If using the
SAXON
XPath engine: Saxon/C
To build the documentation from source:
To build the executables on Windows, an environment such as MinGW or
Cygwin is recommended. These provide POSIX-compatible tools, such as
make
, that allow the s1kd-tools to be built and installed on a Windows
system in the same way as on a Linux system.
To build the executables on Cygwin, you will need the following packages from the package installer:
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gcc-core
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make
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xxd
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libxml2-devel
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libxslt-devel
Prior to building the executables on MSYS2 MINGW32, run the following to install the necessary packages from pacman:
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc mingw-w64-i686-make mingw-w64-i686-pkgconf mingw-w64-i686-libxml2 mingw-w64-i686-libxslt mingw-w64-i686-libsystre vim
Prior to building the executables on MSYS2 MINGW64, run the following to install the necessary packages from pacman:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-make mingw-w64-x86_64-pkgconf mingw-w64-x86_64-libxml2 mingw-w64-x86_64-libxslt mingw-w64-x86_64-libsystre vim
Run the following commands to build the executables, and install both the executables and documentation:
$ make
# make install
To uninstall the executables and documentation:
# make uninstall
The following parameters can be given to make
to control certain
options when building and installing.
The prefix
variable determines where the s1kd-tools are installed when
running make install
, and where they are uninstalled from when running
make uninstall
. The default value is /usr/local
.
Example:
# make prefix=/usr install
# make prefix=/usr uninstall
The xpath2_engine
variable determines which XPath 2.0 implementation
the s1kd-brexcheck tool will use to evaluate the object paths of BREX
rules.
The s1kd-tools are built on libxml, so by default s1kd-brexcheck uses libxml's XPath implementation. However, libxml only supports XPath 1.0. While as of Issue 6, the S1000D default BREX rules are all compatible with XPath 1.0, Issue 4.0 and up do reference the XPath 2.0 specification. Therefore, if your project needs XPath 2.0 support for BREX rules, you should select one of these implementations:
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SAXON
Experimental implementation using the Saxon/C library. Slower, and Saxon/C itself is a very large dependency. Not recommended at this time due to memory leak issues. -
XQILLA
Experimental implementation using the Xerces-C and XQilla libraries. A little slower than libxml, but faster than Saxon/C, and the dependencies are much smaller than the latter. This is currently the recommended implementation if you need XPath 2.0 support.
Example:
$ make xpath2_engine=xqilla
The debug
variable enables building the tools with debugging
information still included.
Example:
$ make debug=1