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LIBICAL -- An implementation of basic iCAL protocols The code and datafiles in this distribution are licensed under the Mozilla Public License. See http://www.mozilla.org/NPL/MPL-1.0.html for a copy of the license. Alternately, you may use libical under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License. See http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/lesser.html for a copy of the LGPL. This dual license ensures that the library can be incorporated into both proprietary code and GPL'd programs, and will benefit from improvements made by programmers in both realms. I will only accept changes into my version of the library if they are similarly dual-licensed. The code in this distribution implements the iCal protocols as described in RFC2445 and RFC2446. The code is in very early stages of development. Portions of this distribution are (C) Copyright 1996 Apple Computer, Inc., AT&T Corp., International Business Machines Corporation and Siemens Rolm Communications Inc. See src/libicalvcal/README.TXT for details. This code is under active development. If you would like to contribute to the project, you can contact me, Eric Busboom, at eric@softwarestudio.org. The project has a webpage at http://softwarestudio.org/libical/index.html and a mailing list that you can join by sending the following mail: ------------ To: minimalist@softwarestudio.org Subject: subscribe libical ------------ Building the library -------------------- This distribution is developed on Red Hat Linux 6.0 and usually compiles on SunOS 5.6 and FreeBSD 2.27. I have reports of success of previous version on MacOS ( with CodeWarrior ) and on UnixWare, but I don't know about any other systems. The library is configured with automake. From the root directory, run ./configure To build all of the Makefiles for your system. If you will be installing the library, you may want to use the --prefix flag to set the directory where the library and header files will be installed. ./configure --prefix=/proj/local/ If configure runs fine, run "make" to build the library and "make install" to install it. Although the distribution uses libtool to generate libraries, it has shared libraries turned off by default. To create and install shared libraries use: ./configure --enable-shared The current version of libical focuses on creating and manipulating iCal objects. With it, you can parse text representations of iCal components, add and remove sub-components, properties, parameters and values, and print the components back out as strings. Notes for Libical Developers ------------------- If you don't want to use gcc as the compiler, and you got the sources from CVS, you should set the CC variable to the path to the compiler and run "automake --include-deps" to keep automake from using gcc-specific automatic dependancy tracking. > CC=/pkg/SUNWspro/bin/cc; export CC > automake --include-deps > ./configure --prefix=/proj/local/ > make You will not need to re-run automake unless you got the sources from CVS. Using the Library ----------------- There is rudimentary, unfinished documentation in the /doc directory, and annotated examples in /examples. Perl Library ------------ There is a perl language binding of this library, LIBICAL. It is available from http://www.softwarestudio.org/libical Eric Busboom eric@softwarestudio.org