Re: Packing a C# project.

2008/6/12 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:

> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ok as far as I can tell it's working now, took me a while with "//"
> > appearing where sometimes a prefixed forward slash was added sometimes it
> > was not, depending on what functions were called, but it's all tidy now.
> So
> > next problem.
> >
> > help.txt this should be in $PREFIX/share, which occurs at install time,
> ok I
> > get it, but how do I implement this for autopackage?
>
> I don't really know how to do this in monodevelop. What you want is
> the equivalent of "make install" for mono programs.
>
> See if there exist some sort of makefile integration for monodevelop
> projects..  I've been meaning to write something like this, but
> haven't had time. As a small teaser I can mention that I'm actually
> developing a tool (similar to mkapspec, but less "wizardy") for
> autopackage using c# which I intend to use as a pilot for making sure
> autopackage can work good for mono apps.


MonoDevelop has an autotools packaging process which builds a tarball you
can run ./configure, make and sudo make install on. You have to export this
package first and cannot run it on the current working directory that's the
only caveat.


>
>
> > This is what I have so far:
> >
> >                 string sFileName = "";
> >
> >                 if ( File.Exists( "../share/help.txt" ) )
> >                 {
> >                     sFileName = "../share/help.txt";
> >                 }
> >
> >                 else
> >                 {
> >                     sFileName = Path.Combine( BinReloc.DataDir,
> "help.txt"
> > );
> You should add "wasp" to this: Path.Combine(BinReloc.DataDir,
> "wasp/help.txt");
>
> Take a look at your own /usr/share/ directory and see what other programs
> do.


Will do and will attempt to refrain from top posting, GMail hides a lot of
text from me, will hunt for the 'show quoted text button' in future.

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