Hi everyone. I guess I just missed the big 0.92 release, but here's something to look forward to in Factor 0.93: I hacked up the deploy tool to now include application icons, resource files, and dependent dll/so/dylib files in the deployed app directory. A new metadata file, "resources.txt", can now be specified in a vocabulary directory; this file contains a newline-separated list of filenames (e.g. foo.txt), glob patterns (*.aiff), or directory names to recursively include when an app that uses the vocabulary is deployed. If the vocabulary directory contains an "icon.ico" (for Windows) or "icon.icns" (for MacOS X) file, that icon file will be embedded in the generated executable as the application icon. FFI libraries can call a new word "deploy-library" after their add-library call to indicate to Factor that their supporting shared library file needs to be bundled with applications that use it.
With these three features, you should now be able to use the deploy tool to build a standalone application, complete with all its dependent resource files and libraries, without any manual post-deployment file manager work. Pull the latest git sources to play with it. "gpu.demos.raytrace" now demonstrates all of the features, but you'll need OpenAL and an OpenGL 3.0 capable graphics driver to run it. -Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
