Copyright (C) 1995-2023 Index Data. See the file LICENSE for details.

The primary output of the source here is the YAZ library, which contains support functions for implementing the server or client role of Z39.50 and SRU.

For more information about YAZ refer to the documentation in sub directory doc or online.

It's easiest to compile this software by using the source tar provided for official releases. Refer to "FTP".

If you want to clone and compile from Git, it's more complicated. Firstly, you need to clone with submodules. You need autoconf tools - such as autoconf, automake, libtool. For compilation besides the obvious C compiler (gcc, clang) and make you also need xsltproc, tcl, docbook xml. The buildconf.sh script creates the configure script and makefiles.

For Debian based systems, read debian/control and install what's listed in Build-Depends. For RPM based systems, read yaz.spec and what's listed in BuildRequires.

$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/indexdata/yaz.git
$ cd yaz
$ ./buildconf.sh
$ ./configure
$ make

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