1== How to build expat with cmake (experimental) == 2 3The cmake based buildsystem for expat works on Windows (cygwin, mingw, Visual 4Studio) and should work on all other platform cmake supports. 5 6Assuming ~/expat-2.1.0 is the source directory of expat, add a subdirectory 7build and change into that directory: 8~/expat-2.1.0$ mkdir build && cd build 9~/expat-2.1.0/build$ 10 11From that directory, call cmake first, then call make, make test and 12make install in the usual way: 13~/expat-2.1.0/build$ cmake .. 14-- The C compiler identification is GNU 15-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 16.... 17-- Configuring done 18-- Generating done 19-- Build files have been written to: /home/patrick/expat-2.1.0/build 20 21If you want to specify the install location for your files, append 22-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/your/install/path to the cmake call. 23 24~/expat-2.1.0/build$ make && make test && make install 25Scanning dependencies of target expat 26[ 5%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlparse.c.o 27[ 11%] Building C object CMakeFiles/expat.dir/lib/xmlrole.c.o 28.... 29-- Installing: /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/expat.pc 30-- Installing: /usr/local/bin/xmlwf 31-- Installing: /usr/local/share/man/man1/xmlwf.1 32 33For Windows builds, you must make sure to call cmake from an environment where 34your compiler is reachable, that means either you call it from the 35Visual Studio Command Prompt or when using mingw, you must open a cmd.exe and 36make sure that gcc can be called. On Windows, you also might want to specify a 37special Generator for CMake: 38for Visual Studio builds do: 39cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 10" && vcexpress expat.sln 40for mingw builds do: 41cmake .. -G "MinGW Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=D:\expat-install 42 && gmake && gmake install 43