Re: Packing a C# project.

2008/6/18 Neil Munro <[email protected]>:

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> 2008/6/18 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:
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>> 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.
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>> > Stage 1:
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>> > 1) Binary relocatability, I believe I have done this.
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>> Yes.
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>> > 2) Dependancy audit, there's only one, mono. I know this from guess work
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>> > 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.
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>> I will probably need to do some work in autopackage to help you with this.
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>> As you noticed, the .exe's aren't ELF binaries but .NET assemblies
>> (microsofts format).
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>> 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 :-)
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>> If you only have mscorelib and System.* stuff there, then you only
>> depend on mono.
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> It appears I only depend on Mono then.
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>> > Stage 3:
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>> > 1) Created the default.apspec.in file using the command line (from
>> > template).
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>> > Stage 4:
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>> > 1) Edited the file manually to place shortname, description, version
>> number
>> > etc into it.
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>> 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 :)
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> It was quite educational, yes.
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>> > Stage 5:
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>> > 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.
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>> You can remove prepareBuild line and it should be a $ instead of % for
>> variable names in unix:
>> ./install.sh $build_root
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> 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. ;)
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>> > 3) Left [BuildUnprepare] as it was.
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>> > Stage 6:
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>> > 1) use echo '*' | import to import all files.
>> > 2) I assume I AM using prepareBuild so skip over the next section.
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>> 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
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> 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.
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>> > Stage 7:
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>> > 1) I assume the only dependency considering I am writing in C# is mono.
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>> I think so.
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>> > 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.
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>> I will take a look at it later. Progress so far looks good!
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> Thanks :D
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>> -Isak
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May I ask if you've had chance to look at my file yet?