On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Feb 13, 3:07 am, Chris Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Lazarus is a free pascal ide. The knoppix live 5.1 DVD distro comes >> > with it pre-installed. This is what was used. Just unzip all files >> > onto the knoppix desktop and load the project into lazarus. >> >> Stop right there. >> >> You're assuming that: >> >> 1) I have Knoppix. >> >> Most people use Knoppix for fixing broken hard disks and such. Not >> many use it day-to-day (you can, but not as many do). >> >> 2) Expecting a tester or an end-user to install an IDE is Bad. Don't. >> >> GNU Autotools are a pain the butt. I don't use them. But make sure >> you have some kind of build sequence (SCons, etc.) that people can >> use. >> >> -- >> Registered Linux Addict #431495 >> For Faith and Family! | John 3:16!http://www.fsdev.net/ > > > Unfortunately, I'm just not that good with free pascal. I couldn't > advise how to compile this project on any system that isn't perfectly > set up because I couldn't do it myself. The beauty of the live CDs is > things are set up for you by someone who has time and patience to set > them up. > > Moreover, I just haven't spent much time learning to instal software > on Linux machines. I've been away from my computer for the past six > months or so. You'll find me at Gold's Gym building my muscles:)
In LA? > One thing I can do is write software. Whether or not people find it > good and/or useful or not is a topic for another debate :) I don't much care if your software is useful, I just want you to learn the techniques that will give your software the best chances of success, and a good makefile or build script is that best chance. I hate to proselyte for software that I abhor and don't use personally, but GNU Autotools is the de-facto standard and if you are seriously interested in writing software for GNU/Linux, you __must__ learn GNU Autotools. Autotools is a set of [annoying, automagical, undocumented] tools that generate a Makefile and a configuration script. If you've ever done ./configure; make; make install; then you've used Autotools. Writing Makefile.in and Configure.in and blah blah blah has never really interested me. I'm coming up on a project where I'll have to do that, but I've avoided it thus far. But the moral of the story is that you should do as I say and not as I do: go learn GNU Autotools. It'll make distributing your software a LOT easier. And you'll get a LOT more testers. PS: Pascal? It's been five years since I've heard of someone using that language! -- Registered Linux Addict #431495 For Faith and Family! | John 3:16! http://www.fsdev.net/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
