Chapter 2. Preliminaries

Table of Contents

Prerequisites
Downloading
Directory Architecture
Compilation
Installation

Prerequisites

Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) library is written in C++. Provided source files and makefiles are prepared for compilation with GNU build tools (http://gcc.gnu.org/). Compilation was tested on Linux and Solaris. MLP library requires following additional software to be installed:

Xerces-c++, cURL

MLP is XML based protocol. Xerces SAX parser is used to process XML. MLP library was tested with Xerces-c 3.0.1. (http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/).

cURL is needed for example client. It is used to send HTTP POST messages. It is needed only for curl-client example. MLP library was tested with curl 7.19.4. (http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/).