-YAZ toolkit - $Id: README,v 1.38 2001-10-25 12:29:35 adam Exp $
+YAZ toolkit
-Copyright (C) 1995-2001, Index Data ApS.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Index Data ApS.
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.
-
-Windows programmers: refer to the file windows.txt which describes how
-to build the software using Microsoft Visual C++.
+role of Z39.50 and SRU.
On Unix, GNU configure is used to configure YAZ and generate Makefiles.
-Type "./configure", then "make" to build YAZ.
+Type "./configure", then "make" to build YAZ. Read
+doc/installation.unix.html for details.
+
+On Windows, a MS Visual Studio makefile is provided (nmake). The commands
+ cd \win
+ nmake
+should do. Refer to doc/installation.win32.html for details.
-Note: If you are using the CVS snapshot of YAZ you must have autoconf,
-automake and libtool installed. Before running configure, create
+Note: If you are using the Git snapshot of YAZ you must have autoconf,
+automake, libtool and xsltproc installed. Before running configure, create
support files by running buildconf.sh in the top-level directory of YAZ.
In any case refer to the documentation in sub directory doc or read
-it online at http://www.indexdata.dk/yaz/
+it online at http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/
File organisation:
doc Documentation.
-util Various little utility functions. Logging, memory debugging,
- primitive ISO 2709 presentation for the yaz-client, etc. You'll
- find the ASN.1 Compiler for YAZ here as well (yaz-comp).
-
-odr Open Data Representation. This module implements the BER
- encoding rules.
-
-z39.50 codecs for the Z39.50 protocol. This module does the same job
- as the old 'asn' module except that the source files are
- auto-generated using an YAZ' ASN.1 Compiler (yaz-comp).
-
-zutil This module implements a collection of Z39.50 utilities, such
- as query parsing, etc.
+src Source for the YAZ library.
-ill codesc for the ISO ILL protocol.
-
-comstack This module implements the transport transparency
- stack (COMSTACK). The comstack implements a generic interface
- for exchanging BER-encoded records over a network. It supports
- the 'American' mode of exchanging the records straight over
- TCP/IP, and uses Peter Furniss' XTIMOSI package over RFC1006.
- Look for documentation in the file comstack.man.
-
-zoom An implementation of Mike Taylors Z39.50 Object Oriented
- Model : ZOOM. If you'd like to build Z39.50 client applications
- in C this may be good start. You'll find example programs in
- this directory too.
-
-server This is the implementation of the server frontend. It
- provides event-handling and server managament functions,
- and calls the backend primitives (best documentation of these
- is in the file include/yaz/backend.h).
+util Utility programs, ASN.1 compiler, MARC dump utility, and others.
client A demonstration client for testing the protocol. It's bug'n
ugly. But, it supports many features.
ztest A demonstration server that implements a backend.
-include/yaz The various header files.
+etc Various configuration files.
-lib The libraries. Primarily libyaz.la. The makefile gathers the
- libraries from previous modules into libyaz.la.
+include/yaz The various header files.
To get more information or assistance, send mail to yaz-help@indexdata.dk.
Even better, sign on to the YAZ mailing list here:
-http://www.indexdata.dk/mailman/listinfo/yazlist
+http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/yazlist
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