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Troubles compiling or linking programs using libxslt Usually the problem comes from the fact that the compiler doesn't get the right compilation or linking flags. There is a small shell script `xslt-config` which is installed as part of libxslt usual install process which provides those flags. Use `xslt-config --cflags` to get the compilation flags and `xslt-config --libs` to get the linker flags. Usually this is done directly from the Makefile as: `CFLAGS=`xslt-config --cflags`` `LIBS=`xslt-config --libs`` Note also that if you use the EXSLT extensions from the program then you should prepend `-lexslt` to the LIBS options passing parameters on the xsltproc command line doesn't work xsltproc --param test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml the param does not get passed and ends up as "" In a nutshell do a double escaping at the shell prompt: xsltproc --param test "'alpha'" foo.xsl foo.xml i.e. the string value is surrounded by " and ' then terminated by ' and ". Libxslt interpret the parameter values as XPath expressions, so the string ->`alpha`<- is intepreted as the node set matching this string. You really want ->`'alpha'`<- to be passed to the processor. And to allow this you need to escape the quotes at the shell level using ->`"'alpha'"`<- . or use xsltproc --stringparam test alpha foo.xsl foo.xml Is there C++ bindings ? Yes for example xmlwrapp , see the related pages about bindings Daniel Veillard