Installation steps for Windows

This is a contribution by Kevin S. Millikin:
  1. Download the fxp sources. Save the file where you would like the fxp source directory to reside. For instance, I just installed mine in /cygdrive/d/xml.
  2. In the Cygwin bash shell, cd to the directory containing the source tarball, and unzip and detar it. Then, cd to the directory containing the fxp sources
    cd /cygdrive/d/xml
    tar -zxvf fxp.tar.gz
    cd fxp-1.4.6
    
  3. Read the COPYRIGHT.
  4. Edit the Makefile to reflect the situation at your site. Change the line specifying where to install the fxp binaries and libraries from
    PREFIX     = /home/berlea/xmlsoft
    
    to something like
    PREFIX     = /cygdrive/d/xml
    
    Change the line specifying the path to the SML/NJ executable to the correct path to the executable, from
    SML_BINDIR = /usr/share/smlnj/bin
    
    to something like
    SML_BINDIR = /cygdrive/d/smlnj-110.43/bin
    
    Finally, the Cygwin version of mkdirhier is buggy. Replace the line
    MKDIRHIER = mkdirhier
    
    with
    MKDIRHIER = mkdir -p
          
  5. Unix versions of SML/NJ come equipped with a shell script called .arch-n-opsys that reports the processor architecture and operating system. The Win32 versions do not include this shell script. fxp's build process relies on the presence of this script. The easiest thing to do is place a script in the same directory as your sml binary.
    #!/bin/sh
    #
    # .arch-n-opsys  -- get architecture and system info
    # This file is hacked to run with the Windows version
    
    echo "ARCH=x86; OPSYS=win32; HEAP_SUFFIX=x86-win32"
    
    Call this file .arch-n-opsys. Notice that it's really a big cheat. Make sure that it is executable
    chmod a+x .arch-n-opsys
    
  6. Now, you can make all
    make
    
  7. If that succeeded, you can install the binaries and libraries
    make install