Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20091118

Chapter 8. General Libraries

libtasn1-2.2

Introduction to libtasn1

libtasn1 is a highly portable C library that encodes and decodes DER/BER data following an ASN.1 schema.

Package Information

libtasn1 Dependencies

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.11

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libtasn1

Installation of libtasn1

Install libtasn1 by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: asn1Coding, asn1Decoding, and asn1Parser
Installed Library: libtasn1.{so,a}
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

asn1Coding

is an ASN.1 DER encoder.

asn1Decoding

is an ASN.1 DER decoder.

asn1Parser

is an ASN.1 syntax tree generator for libtasn1.

libtasn1.{so,a}

is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation..

Last updated on 2009-07-26 06:17:47 +0000