GiftWrap 0.1 release

[Vadi]

Not at the moment

[titopagan]

I tried compiling DOOM Legacy 1.42, but it keeps saying:


I'm not sure what to do.

EDIT: The top source folder is doomlegacy_142_src.

Maybe try changing the folder name to: DoomLegacy-1.42

Just a guess...

@xuCGC002-- did the above sugestion work for you?

[MrQuincle]

Dear all,

It was hard for me to find a tutorial for GiftWrap. So, I am gonna add some additional information regarding a C program in the CDT environment in Eclipse. Say I am gonna create the package "linda"...

Example: linda package
Title: The Linda engine is a threadpool for TCP/IP
Description: The Linda engine is a threadpool for TCP/IP powered by an abbey. Part of the CHAP software platform.
Section: Libraries

Add Makefile to Eclipse
Regretfully Eclipse has such a Makefile management system that it is almost impossible to get it running.

You have to add your own custom Makefile in the root of the project directory. Make sure you are in a real directory, not one soft linked from somewhere else! (GiftWrap can't cope with that yet.) The following is the content of the Makefile I created. Like you see it just evokes the makefile in the Debug directory. And it adds an install section. Add echo statements over there if you want to communicate during the installation process with the person installing your stuff.

all:
    (cd Debug; make $@)

clean:
    (cd Debug; make $@)

install:
    sudo cp Debug/liblinda.so /usr/lib
    sudo mkdir -p /usr/include/linda
    sudo cp inc/*.h /usr/include/linda

It is very convenient to run giftwrap from the command line. For instance, on deleting a previously made package, it needs confirmation to delete the .svn directories from the command line (the developer didn't use the flag -rf for removal). The symlink error is communicated by the cryptic message: "can't cd to /home/anne/.giftwrap/linda/linda-0.0.20091120". (When I did ls -latr, I saw that it was referring to the wrong directory.)

[john4]

Hey Vadi,

This has to be THE idea, who's time has come for Ubuntu. The number of times that I've heard that the main thing holding Ubuntu back is the speed of which we can package new software for testing.

Can this be used to package a straight binary (ie without any compiling). I'm making a game in Blender, which precompiles a binary straight from the app. I just want something that lets me browse for the binary, put in the name, dependencies, license etc and click generate.

Would this be possible with GiftWrap? Every packaging guide I ever see assumes I want to learn all about make files, source packages and worse. I just want to share a binary with dependencies, a menu entry and a description!


EDIT: Well, I tried it... saved my binary in a folder in the format packagename-version and .tar.gz compressed it for giftwrap. Unfortunately I got:

dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package mr-cubie
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 0.1-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Ubuntiac <please@dontspamme.com>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture amd64
fakeroot debian/rules clean
dh_testdir
dh_testroot
rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
# Add here commands to clean up after the build process.
/usr/bin/make clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/.giftwrap/mr-cubie/mr-cubie-0.1'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/.giftwrap/mr-cubie/mr-cubie-0.1'
make: *** [clean] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: fakeroot debian/rules clean gave error exit status 2


Any way around this?

Has any one solved this. I'm trying to create a PPA for our FOSS project (java web app) and I'm getting the same error.

Thank you,

John

[Ubuntiac]

Nope, sorry. I never did manage to find an easy way to package a single binary.

If you find a way, I'd love to hear it!