Re: Writing Installer
- From: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
- To: Amit Bansal <amitdk29 rediffmail com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Writing Installer
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:09:12 +0200
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 07:58, Amit Bansal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is slightly off-topic here, but I'm sure ppl here can help me in
> this regard!
>
> I wish to write an installer to generate and install the binaries from
> my source code distribution
If you write normal build files, then "make install" will install the
binaries in the correct place.
I recommend my short explanation:
http://www.murrayc.com/learning/linux/automake/automake.shtml
> . I find these files called "configure.in",
> "Makefile.am" etc in the source code distributions of most
> applications. I'm becoming bald, tearing my hair trying to figure out
> how these files are processed, and by whom. I guess tools like
> automake, autoconf... etc are there to make my life simpler, but...
>
> Can someone guide me to some comprehensive documentation that guides me
> about when and how to use each of the tools, like automake, autoconf,
> libtool etc.? I can check out the man pages of these individual tools,
> but...
>
> Please tell me about some documentation that guides me via a
> walk-through the entire process of generating these files
> "configure.in", "Makefile.am" etc, and how to use them. I am familiar
> with "make", and stuff like where header files and libraries are
> supposed to go, so we can start off from there.
>
> I hope someone will help me here!
>
> TIA,
> Amit
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Murray Cumming
www.murrayc.com
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