The easiest way to install YAZ on Windows is by downloading an installer from here. The installer comes with source too - in case you wish to compile YAZ with different Compiler options etc.
YAZ is shipped with "makefiles" for the NMAKE tool that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio. Version 6 and .NET has been tested. We expect that YAZ compiles with version 5 as well.
Start a command prompt and switch the sub directory
WIN where the file makefile
is located. Customize the installation by editing the
makefile file (for example by using notepad).
The following summarizes the most important settings in that file:
DEBUGIf set to 1, the software is compiled with debugging libraries (code generation is multi-threaded debug DLL). If set to 0, the software is compiled with release libraries (code generation is multi-threaded DLL).
HAVE_TCL, TCL
If HAVE_TCL is set to 1, nmake will
use the ASN.1 compiler (Tcl based). You must set
TCL to the full path of the Tcl
interpreter.
If you do not have Tcl installed, set
HAVE_TCL to 0.
HAVE_BISON,
BISON
If GNU Bison is present, you might set HAVE_ICONV
to 1 and specify the Bison executable in BISON.
Bison is only required if you use the CVS version of
YAZ or if you modify the grammar for CQL
(cql.y).
A Windows version of GNU Bison is part of unxutils.
HAVE_ICONV,
ICONV_DIR
If HAVE_ICONV is set to 1, YAZ is compiled
with iconv support. In this configuration, set
ICONV_DIR to the iconv source directory.
HAVE_LIBXML2,
LIBXML2_DIR
If HAVE_LIBXML2 is set to 1, YAZ is compiled
with SRU support. In this configuration, set
LIBXML2_DIR to the
libxml2 source directory
and
ZLIB_DIR to the zlib directory.
Windows versions of libxslt, libxml2, zlib and iconv can be found Igor Zlatković' site.
YAZ is not using zlib but libxml2 is depending on it.
HAVE_LIBXSLT,
LIBXSLT_DIR
If HAVE_LIBXSLT is set to 1, YAZ is compiled
with XSLT support. In this configuration, set
LIBXSLT_DIR to the
libxslt source directory.
libxslt depends libxml2.
When satisfied with the settings in the makefile, type
nmake
If the nmake command is not found on your system
you probably haven't defined the environment variables required to
use that tool. To fix that, find and run the batch file
vcvars32.bat. You need to run it from within
the command prompt or set the environment variables "globally";
otherwise it doesn't work.
If you wish to recompile YAZ - for example if you modify
settings in the makefile you can delete
object files, etc by running.
nmake clean
The following files are generated upon successful compilation:
bin/yaz.dllYAZ release mode multi-threaded Dynamic Link Library.
lib/yaz.lib
Import library for yaz.dll.
bin/yazd.dllYAZ debug mode multi-threaded Dynamic Link Library.
lib/yazd.lib
Import library for yazd.dll.
bin/yaz-client.exeYAZ Z39.50 client application. It's a WIN32 console application. See chapter YAZ client for more information.
bin/yaz-ztest.exeZ39.50 multi-threaded test/example server. It's a WIN32 console application.
bin/zoomsh.exeSimple console application implemented on top of the ZOOM functions. The application is a command line shell that allows you to enter simple commands to perform ZOOM operations.
bin/zoomtst1.exe,
bin/zoomtst2.exe, ..Several small applications that demonstrates the ZOOM API.
This section will go though the process of linking your WIN32 applications with YAZ.
Some people are confused by the fact that we use the nmake tool to build YAZ. They think they have to do that too - in order to make their WIN32 applications work with YAZ. The good news is that you don't have to. You can use the integrated environment of Visual Studio if desired for your own application.
When setting up a project or Makefile you have to set the following:
Set it to the include directory of YAZ.
yaz.lib
You must link with this library. It's located in the
sub directory lib of YAZ.
If you want to link with the debug version of YAZ, you must
link with yazd.dll instead.
yaz.dll
This DLL must be in your execution path when you invoke your application. Specifically, you should distribute this DLL with your application.