Re: [nant-dev] Windows setup contribution

Ian MacLean Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:21:07 -0800

Looks good. One advantage of using a configure based install is that you can use pkgconfig to find out where mono is installed .

Ian

Jaroslaw Kowalski wrote:

That's exactly what I'm doing on my Linux box.
I have mono in /opt/mono/{bin,lib}, nant in /opt/nant/{bin,doc} and nant
shell script in "/usr/local/bin". The last part is my own idea and I don't
think we should do it in general.
We could have

$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/nant --with-mono=/opt/mono
(this would write the appropriate makefile containing paths: /opt/mono and
/opt/nant + a shell script:
------
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/opt/mono/bin:$PATH
exec /opt/mono/bin/mono /opt/nant/bin/NAnt.exe $*
-------
$ make (this would rebuild nant using the appropriate mono)
# make install (this would copy *.exe, *.dll, *.html + shell script to the
appropriate directories under /opt/nant)
I'm not a unix guru, but this looks like a traditional way of doing Linux
installs today. I wouldn't use autoconf for this purpose. Is it acceptable?
Jarek

----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian MacLean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jaroslaw Kowalski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Nicklas Norling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Nant-Developers (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [nant-dev] Windows setup contribution
Why not just add an install target to nant.build and have the current
make file call it. So you could just do:
make install prefix=/usr/local
actually come to think of it NAnt shouldn't put all its binaries in
/usr/local/bin or similar as that would break the assembly scanning
code. It should really put everything in a /nant directory somewhere and
put a bootstrap shellscript in /usr/local/bin.
Ian

1. We should do something about the linux installation really soon. I've heard voices that "NAnt is very complicated to install on Linux because
you

cannot do ./configure --prefix=... && make && make install". Maybe a

simple
configure script that would setup the mono paths in the config file would
do?
Awaiting your comments.

Jarek

----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicklas Norling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Nant-Developers (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 4:10 PM Subject: [nant-dev] Windows setup contribution
Hi all.
I always package up NAnt in a setup for my developers so I thought
I could as well contribute the iss script file I use in case there are
more

out there that would like it.

It uses InnoSetup 4.2.0 http://www.jrsoftware.org/isdl.php which is a

totaly
free and awsome setup tool.
The iss file is designed to be in the root or the release togther with
the NAnt.sln file. From there is will zipp up .\bin\*.
During install it installs this in a directory, optionally adds a
program

group and leaves standard uninstall entry in add/remove programs.

It does not currently alter the PATH variable, but I hope to find some

free

prog that will do that.

The installer file will be called NAntInstaller.exe and will be placed

at

the root of the release.

I added licence file reference and copyrights as best I could. Hope I

got
it

right.

/Nicke
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