1Libmetalink
2===========
3
4Libmetalink is a library to read Metalink XML download description
5format. It supports Metalink version 3 and Metalink version 4 (RFC
65854).
7
8Requirements
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10
11The following packages are needed to build the library:
12
13* pkg-config >= 0.20
14* libexpat >= 2.1.0 or libxml2 >= 2.7.8
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16To build and run the unit test programs, the following packages are
17needed:
18
19cunit >= 2.1
20
21Build from bzr
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23
24To build from bzr, run following commands (you need autoconf)::
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26    $ autoreconf -i
27    $ automake --add-missing
28    $ autoconf
29    $ ./configure
30    $ make
31
32API
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35All public APIs are in metalink/metalink_parser.h,
36metalink/metalink_types.h and metalink/metalink_error.h.
37
38Please note that metalink_*_set_*, metalink_*_new and
39metalink_*_delete functions in metalink/metalink_types.h will be
40hidden from public API in the future release. The newly written
41application should not use these functions. The existing applications
42are advised to stop using these functions. If you want to hold the
43modified data of Metalink, define application specific data structure
44for this.
45