Installing XSD on Linux

This README describes installing the XSD compiler (xsd) and runtime library (libxsd) from binary packages on a generic Linux distribution. Note that the runtime library is header-only.

Besides the runtime library, the generated code also depends on the underlying XML parser which can be Xerces-C++ for the C++/Tree mapping and Xerces-C++ or Expat for the C++/Parser mapping. Both of these XML parsers are usually available from the distribution's official package repository and you need to install one or the other explicitly, or, alternatively, build one from source.

The following binary packages are provided for generic Linux (here <...> denotes the version and architecture information):

xsd-<...>-linux-glibcX.Y.tar.xz     -- XSD compiler
libxsd-<...>-linux.tar.xz           -- XSD runtime library

Note that the XSD compiler package is statically linked except for glibc and can be used on any distribution with glibc version X.Y or later.

By default both packages assume the installation into /usr/local/ but can be relocated. For example, to install to /usr/local/:

$ sudo tar -xf xsd-<...>.tar.xz -C / --strip-components=1
$ sudo tar -xf libxsd-<...>.tar.xz -C / --strip-components=1

Or, to relocate to /opt/xsd/:

$ sudo mkdir -p /opt/xsd
$ sudo tar -xf xsd-<...>.tar.xz -C /opt/xsd --strip-components=3
$ sudo tar -xf libxsd-<...>.tar.xz -C /opt/xsd --strip-components=3

To test the installation you can try to build and run an example, for example cxx/tree/hello/ from the xsd-examples source package (see examples README for details):

$ xsd cxx-tree hello.xsd
$ c++ -std=c++11 -c hello.cxx
$ c++ -std=c++11 -c driver.cxx
$ c++ -std=c++11 -o driver driver.o hello.o -lxerces-c
$ ./driver hello.xml

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