The Gedcom parser library (release @VERSION@)
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The Gedcom parser library is a C library that provides an API to applications
-to parse and process arbitrary genealogy files in the standard gedcom format.
+to parse, process and write arbitrary genealogy files in the standard gedcom
+format.
Its main features are:
- internationalization of the error and warning messages
- specific parsing of date values to a calendar-neutral date system (Julian
- days aka serial day numbers); the date parser can be called separately
+ days aka serial day numbers); the date parser can be called separately and
+ dates can be manipulated
- specific parsing and checking of cross-references
- specific parsing of age values
- - support for writing Gedcom files
+ - support for writing Gedcom files (both in line-by-line format, or via the
+ Gedcom object model)
- "compatibility-mode" parsing, to allow for not-exactly-standard syntaxes
- used by other genealogy programs; currently, compatibility is added for:
+ used by other genealogy programs; currently, compatibility is added for
+ (not necessarily complete):
- ftree
- - Lifelines 3.0.2 (not complete)
+ - Lifelines 3.0.2
+ - Personal Ancestral File (PAF), version 2, 4 and 5
+ - Family Origins
+ - EasyTree
NOTE:
- NO BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY is guaranteed for 0.x releases !
- specific parsing of other special values
- compatibility with other genealogy programs
- older/newer Gedcom standards ?
- - modifying data
- writing GEDML files
- C++ object model
- ...
make
make install
+If libiconv is not automatically found, you can give its path to configure,
+for example, if the library lives in /home/mydir/lib:
+
+ ./configure --with-libiconv-prefix=/home/mydir
+
You can also run some tests via:
make check