YAZ++ - A C++ library for YAZ
-$Id: README.txt,v 1.1 1999-01-28 09:41:07 adam Exp $
+$Id: README.txt,v 1.6 2000-10-11 11:58:16 adam Exp $
o Introduction
-YAZ is development toolkit that implements the ANSI Z39.50 protocol.
-YAZ homepage is: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz
+YAZ++ is a C++ layer for YAZ and implements the ANSI Z39.50
+protocol for information retrieval (client - and server side).
+YAZ homepage is: http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/
-YAZ++ is a C++ wrapper on top of that YAZ. It provides a relatively
-simple, high level, interface to YAZ.
+YAZ++ uses the same license as YAZ - see LICENSE file for details.
-o Documentatation
+o Overview
-Description of object model can be found in the sub directory doc, file
-index.html.
+YAZ++ builds a programmers' library libyaz++.lib and a few
+example applications:
+ yaz-client - small client
+ yaz-server - small server
+ yaz-proxy - simple proxy server
-The documentation was auto-generated from source using doc++.
+Description in HTML format of object model can be found in the sub
+directory doc. The top-page of the documentaion is index.html. The
+documentation was auto-generated from YAZ++ source using doc++.
-o Installation
+Directory structure of the YAZ++ package.
-Before compilation can take place YAZ must be installed. Unpack
-yaz-<version>.tar.gz in the same directory as yaz++.
+ -- src (C++ source)
+ -- include (C++ headers)
+ -- doc (documentation)
+ -- win (Windows build files)
-For Unix - make sure you have a C++ compiler available. g++ works fine.
- $ cd unix
+o Installation, Unix
+
+Make sure you have a C - and C++ compiler available. gcc and
+g++ works fine.
+
+Before compilation can take place YAZ must be installed. It goes, roughly,
+like this:
+
+ $ cd yaz-<version>
+ $ ./configure
+ $ make
+ $ cd ..
+
+Then, build YAZ++:
+
+ $ cd yaz++-<version>
$ ./configure
$ make
-For Windows. The software was build using Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 and
-6.0. Other compilers should work but the makefile will have to be
-modified.
- > cd win
- > nmake (Visual C++ makefile not yet created)
+o Installation, Windows
+
+Software is WIN32 and should run on Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0.
+Yaz++ was build using Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. Other compilers should
+work but makefile/project files will have to be created for those
+compiler environments.
+ Workspace yazxx.dsw includes the projects
+ yazxx.dsp - builds yazxx.dll
+ yazclient.dsp - builds yazclient.exe
+ yazserver.dsp - builds yazserver.exe
+ yazproxy.dsp - builds yazproxy.exe