Re: Packing a C# project.

2008/6/18 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:

> 2008/6/18 Neil Munro <[email protected]>:
> > My understanding of reading the documentation, which I have been doing,
> just
> > completing sections as well as I can when I reach them.
> >
> > Stage 1:
> >
> > 1) Binary relocatability, I believe I have done this.
>
> Yes.
>
> > 2) Dependancy audit, there's only one, mono. I know this from guess work
> and
> > following the ldd thing on the website. However running it on the exe
> file
> > with the | grep NEEDED did not work. I assume because it's not an ELF
> > binary.
>
> I will probably need to do some work in autopackage to help you with this.
>
> As you noticed, the .exe's aren't ELF binaries but .NET assemblies
> (microsofts format).
>
> You can easily see all dependencies by looking in monodevelop under
> the "References" folder in the project view. (See:
> http://assets.devx.com/articlefigs/16626.png )... I wish it was this
> simple for ELF binaries :-)
>
> If you only have mscorelib and System.* stuff there, then you only
> depend on mono.


It appears I only depend on Mono then.


>
>
> > Stage 3:
> >
> > 1) Created the default.apspec.in file using the command line (from
> > template).
> >
> > Stage 4:
> >
> > 1) Edited the file manually to place shortname, description, version
> number
> > etc into it.
>
> The above could have been handled by mkapspec, but it's also good that
> you did it yourself since you learn more about how it all works :)


It was quite educational, yes.


>
> > Stage 5:
> >
> > 1) Created the install.sh file which is as above, it installs the
> help.txt
> > file.
> > 2) Placed ./install.sh %build_root in the [PrepareBuild] section just
> above
> > preparebuild.
>
> You can remove prepareBuild line and it should be a $ instead of % for
> variable names in unix:
> ./install.sh $build_root


Sorry, typo. Realised that AFTER I sent it. Typical. Presumably your telling
me to remove prepareBuild line because you assume my project is NOT using
configure and make? If so, see below. ;)

>
>
> > 3) Left [BuildUnprepare] as it was.
>
>
> > Stage 6:
> >
> > 1) use echo '*' | import to import all files.
> > 2) I assume I AM using prepareBuild so skip over the next section.
>
> No, prepareBuild can only be used for projects which use configure and
> makefiles... For now, just use your install script there and make sure
> you compile with monodevelop manually before creating the package


My project DOES use configure and makefiles. MonoDevelop can create a
tarball of sources and create the configure and make files using auto-tools.
My plan was to create such a tarball and then do a bog standard autopackage
based upon that.


>
>
> > Stage 7:
> >
> > 1) I assume the only dependency considering I am writing in C# is mono.
>
> I think so.
>
> > Please find attached the default.apspec.in file which I have been
> working
> > on. At a guess it's only stage 7 I may be having issues with, if I am
> wrong,
> > well then I am wrong and have to go back a bit. But I'd rather have been
> > right.
>
> I will take a look at it later. Progress so far looks good!


Thanks :D

>
>
> -Isak
>
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