The release comes in two forms, source and binary. 

To get both the binary and source distribution, you need libxml2 from http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
(NOTE: most Linux systems has libxml2 by default. On Windows you need to download and install libxml2)

Getting Axis2C working with the binary release on Linux.
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1. Extract the binary tar package to a folder. 
   Set AXIS2C_HOME environment variable pointing to the location where you have extracted Axis2C
        AXIS2C_HOME='/your_path_to_axis2c'
        export AXIS2C_HOME
2. Run the simple axis server:
        cd /your_path_to_axis2c/bin
        ./axis2_http_server
This will start the simple axis server on port 9090. To see the possible command line options run
        ./axis2_http_server -h
NOTE: If you run into shared lib problems, set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/your_path_to_axis2c/lib
3. Run the sample clients in a new shell
        cd /your_path_to_axis2c/bin/samples
        ./echo
This will invoke the echo service.
        ./math
This will invoke the math service.
To see the possible command line options for sample clients run them with '-h' option
NOTE: If you run into shared lib problems, set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/your_path_to_axis2c/lib

Getting Axis2C working with the source release on Linux.
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1. Extract the source tar package to a folder. 
2. Set AXIS2C_HOME environment variable pointing to the location where you want to install Axis2C.
        AXIS2C_HOME='/your_desired_path_to_axis2c_installation'
        export AXIS2C_HOME
3. Then go to the folder where you extracted the source
        cd /your_path_to_axis2c_source
4. Set parser location
You need to set the following two environment variables to point to libxml2. 
        LIBXML2_INCLUDE
        LIBXML2_LIB
If you are using the default installation of libxml2, usually those are
LIBXML2_LIB=/usr/lib
LIBXML2_INCLUDE=/usr/include/libxml2

5. Build the source
This can be done using the following command sequence:
        ./configure
        make
        make install
use './configure --help' for options.
NOTE: you may wish to use './configure --prefix=$AXIS2C_HOME' to ensure AXIS2C_HOME and 
intall forlder are the same

If you need to get the samples working, you also need to give the configure option
    --enable-samples=yes

6. go to AXIS2C_HOME
        cd $AXIS2C_HOME

7. Start simple axis server
        cd $AXIS2C_HOME/bin
        ./axis2_http_server
This will start the simple axis server on port 9090. To see the posible command line options run:
        ./axis2_http_server -h
8. Run the sample clients in a new shell
        cd $AXIS2C_HOME/bin/samples
        ./echo
This will invoke the echo service.
        ./math
This will invoke the math service.
To see the possible command line options for sample clients run them with '-h' option


Getting Axis2C working with the binary release on Windows.
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Getting Axis2C working with the source release on Windows.
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Hope you would enjoy this first working version of Axis2C soap engine :)