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Building Camelbox: Build Start :: Build Setup :: Build Base Perl :: Build Core GTK+ :: Build Extra GTK+ :: Build External Apps

Prerequisites

  • Perl source
  • (Optional) Unix Utilities for Windows; this package has a lot of the external utilities you will need when you run the CPAN shell or tools on Windows
  • MinGW
    • The MinGW software is now installed from a centralized installer, from which you can install extra packages if you wish (mostly compilers and make)
    • Camelbox only needs the "MinGW base tools" and "g++ compiler" packages
    • MinGW Installer downloads
    • Install to C:\camelbox\
  • dmake
    • downloadable from CPAN
    • Install to C:\camelbox\
    • The dmake.exe file and startup folder should be placed in the C:\camelbox\bin folder
    • Make sure the paths to gcc.exe, and dmake.exe (and it's subdirectories) are set in the system's environment
      • Windows 7:
        • Right click on Computer
        • Choose Properties
        • Click on Advanced System Settings
        • Click on the Advanced tab
        • Click the Environment Variables button
        • In the System variables box, scroll down until you get to the PATH environment variable, then double click to edit it, and add the path to gcc.exe and dmake.exe to the end of that line
          • Use semicolons to separate path components, and quote characters to quote any paths with space in them

Build Order

See also the build setup page, which describes how to unpack the binary zipfiles in order to repackage them for distribution using the Camelbox installer. After performing each of these steps in order, run the following:

  • a xfind on the camelbox directory in order to create a snapshot of what files were installed
  • a diff -u on the file you just created and the file that was created in the previous step of the build process; the first file obviously will have nothing to diff against, but subsequent diffs will show how the contents change over time.

Points at which you need to run a checkpoint xfind/diff:

  • After dropping UnxUtils and dmake
    • xfind /camelbox | sed -e '{/^\/camelbox$/d; s/\/camelbox[\\]*//;}' | tee 00-base-unxutils_dmake.txt
    • MinGW
    • Perl, with simple CPAN config (remember to set HOME prior to running CPAN for the first time)
    • Perl YAML module
    • Perl LWP module
    • After copying over the GTK binaries
    • After installing core Gtk2-Perl
    • After any extra Gtk2-Perl modules
    • (Optional) LZMA and 7zip

Misc. Commands

Note: the filelist should not contain any bare directories, unless you want the contents of those directories archived as well; tar apparently is greedy. Also, tar does not like lines that end with CR/NL (MS-DOS), it just likes *NIX-style line endings (LF only).

The GNU tar on Windows expects forward slashes in it's filelists:

tar -cvf - -Tperl-5.10.0.txt > test.list.tar

perl-5.10.0.txt looks like this:

bin/a2p.exe
bin/c2ph.bat
bin/config_data.bat
bin/corelist.bat
bin/cpan.bat

xfind

Generate filelists with (zsh.exe)

xfind /camelbox | sed -e '{/^\/camelbox$/d; s/\/camelbox[\\]*//;}'

Windows MS-DOS Box version:

xfind /camelbox | sed -e "{/^\/camelbox$/d; s/\/camelbox[\\]*//;}"

Generate lists of the packages_dir with:

xfind . | sed '{/^\.$/d; s/^\.\\//; s/\\/\//g;}' > /temp/_package_dirs.txt

LZMA

Create a LZMA compressed tarball:

lzma e /path/to/input/tarball.tar /path/to/output/file.tar.lzma

Create an LZMA compressed tarball using a list of files

cd C:\camelbox
tar -cvf - -Tfilelist.txt | lzma e -si /path/to/output/file.tar.lzma

Create an LZMA compressed tarball using a list of files, with comments filtered out

cd C:\camelbox
grep -v "#" /path/to/package_list.txt | tar -cv -T - \
| lzma e -si /path/to/output/file.tar.lzma

Unpack a LZMA compressed tarball

lzma d -so demo.tar.lzma | tar -xvf -

Next step: Setting up files to be placed into archives

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