Source code

Repository

The source is hosted on GitHub. Clone it with:

git clone https://github.com/xmlstarlet/xmlstarlet.git

or browse it online.

Building

Install recent versions of libxml2 and libxslt (including their development headers), then build:

cd xmlstarlet
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

Build tips

• Dependencies are located via pkg-config. Install pkg-config and the development packages for libxml2 and libxslt (for example libxml2-dev and libxslt1-dev on Debian/Ubuntu, or libxml2-devel and libxslt-devel on Fedora) and configure finds them automatically — no need to match header versions by hand.
• If pkg-config is unavailable, configure falls back to xml2-config and xslt-config. To point at a specific build (a custom prefix, or a static build), pass e.g. LIBXML_CONFIG=/path/to/xml2-config and LIBXSLT_CONFIG=/path/to/xslt-config to configure.
• Compile against recent stable versions of libxml2 and libxslt. Newer versions of XMLStarlet normally track the latest stable releases.
• On some systems (such as Solaris) you may need to use gmake instead of make to invoke GNU make.

See the repository's README and issue tracker for further details and help.