Re: Packing a C# project.

On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 2008/6/16 Jan Niklas Hasse <[email protected]>:
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> echo '*' | import
>> >
>> > Uhm, what's does this step do?
>>
>> It imports all files inside $build_root inside your autopackage. See
>> http://autopackage.org/developer-quickstart.html
>
> Woah not done the mkspec step yet. in fact does the mkapspec program not do
> all this? I am trying to do the steps in order as they appear on the
> website. In fact, the mkapspec program helped me build the autopackage, and
> it installs fine, but does not run. At least I am further on than I was.
> I've not gotten it to include the help.txt file and the program bombs out
> with this error.

It is important that you at least get yourself familiar with how
autopackage works. We've written tons of documentation in various
forms on the web and I strongly suggest you at least read the
quickstart and maybe also the tutorial.

It is a bit hard to explain how you should solve your problems if you
don't see the big picture :)

In a nutshell, here's what's required from an apspec-file:

[BuildPrepare]
  In this section, write whatever code that is needed to build the
program and to "install" it into a fake location - The
  install part is important, because the [imports] section expects
stuff to be in the correct places by default (can be
  worked around, but it's easier to do [BuildPrepare] good than to
tweak [imports].
  Essentially, stuff should be placed in the location pointed to by
the $build_root environment variable.

[Imports]
  In this section, write calls to the "import" function to include the
actual files in the resulting .package. If
  [BuildPrepare] is written good, then all that is needed here is:
echo '*' | import

[Prepare]
  Add dependency checks here (mkapspec can help you here!!)

[Install]
  Add code that installs the stuff that was imported earlier (in
[Imports]). All paths in here are relative paths, equal to
  what you see if you look at the directory structure in $build_root

[Uninstall]
  Use uninstallFromLog here. It's all you need unless you did
something really weird in [Install]

But please, read the documentation on the web.

Here's what I suggest you do:
1) Read quickstart, understand the basic concepts
2) Write an install script like Jan Niklas suggested. It's important
that it installs everything into its proper file hierarchy.
2.1) If you run the script like so: ./install-script
/tmp/testing-warp-install you should be able to start warp from
/tmp/testing-warp-install/bin/
2.2) If 2.1 fails, figure out what's wrong :)
3) Use mkapspec to create an apspec file (you hinted that you've
already done this, if so, skip this step)
4) Run makepackage to create the actual package
5) Try to install it!

-Isak

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